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Happy birthday, Glen Hartley (with regards from Thornton Wilder)
<<< We’re all People, before we’re anything else. People, even before we’re artists. The role of being a Person is sufficient to have lived and died for. — Thornton Wilder >>>
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On Virtuosity and Simplicity, by Luke Hankins
When I was young, it seemed logical to me that the most virtuosic performances should be the “best” music, and most…
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Sandy’s Wake (& Celtic New Year): A report from Lally’s Alley
Our friend Michael Lally, who describes himself as "just another ex-jazz-musician/proto-rapper/Jersey-Irish-poet-actor/print-junkie/film-raptor/beat-hipster-"white Negro"-rhapsodizer/ex-hippie-punk-'60s-radical-organizer's take on all things cultural, political, spiritual & aggrandizing," put up this post about the aftermath of Sandy: Sandy is still wreaking…
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Poets and Artists Play “Telephone”
7 Rings: An Artist’s Game of Telephone 7 Days, 7 Artists, 7 Rings, is a living, responsive work of art created by Rebecca Campbell and Nicole Walker. Each week the painter and poet, respectively, alternate kicking off…
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Four Halloween Poems from “Why Am I Grown So Cold” by Myra Cohn Livingston (posted by Jenny Factor)
HOUSE FEAR Always–I tell you this they learned– Always at night when they returned To the lonely house from far away To lamps unlighted and fire gone gray, They learned to rattle the lock…