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The beginning and the end (by Mitch Sisskind)
Matthew Johnson the founder of Fat Possum records brought a group of North Mississippi blues musicians to the world's attention in the early 1990s. Almost all dead now. One most powerful was Junior Kimbrough,…
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“Happy 41, Suzanne Buffam!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
SUZANNE BUFFAM (6/12)♪ BUFF the magic dragon ♫ ♪ Lived by the sea ♫ ♪ And frolicked in the autumn mist ♫ ♪ In a land called Hannah Lee ♫ ♪ Little Chicu Paper…
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Haunted by History by Veronica Golos
“The past is not dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner I have just had the pleasure of writing an introduction to poet Eleanor Swanson’s Trembling in the Bones, to be re-issued by…
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It’s the birthday of . . . Shout out to DL from the Writer’s Almanac
Plus "In Spite of Everything, the Stars" by Ed Hirsch. Read and listen here. — sdh
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“And My Name Is Not Otto” [photo of birthday boy by John Tranter]
"And My Name Is Not Otto" by John Tranter << New York City, 2013-04-07, poet David Lehman, photo by John Tranter >>
