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Lewis Saul, Guest Blogger July 11-17
This week we welcome Lewis Saul as our guest blogger. Lewis is a composer who lives in Tucson, AZ. He studied composition at Juilliard and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. You can read his…
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Evie Shockley
sagittarius when time lavas the lungsand you’ve begun to tack yourself like a hollywood voodoo dollto your own promises remember that you are an archer you know how to get a wishwhere it’s going by…
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The Seven Most Meaningful Compositions That I Will Love Forever — I. BACH: St. Matthew Passion
BACH, Johann Sebastian: Passio Domini Nostri J.C. Secundum Evangelistam Matthaeum (St. Matthew Passion), BWV 244 (1727/rev. 1736) It was 1970, Wealthy Connecticut, and August when a friend knocked on the front door of semi-famous…
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A Poem by Nick Lantz
Birds love sound more than they love food. If scientists could harness and utilize the sonic energy produced by a single parakeet, all the working oil rigs could be unplugged and turned into coral…
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“Read & Re-Read” [by Ashleigh Allen]
I’ve got crumbs of old books,A fence, white, a thumb, paint— It sounds like construction next doorIt’s church, it’s jack rabbits and The dead dandelions have Turned into moons. We will do the laundry,…
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South America Stole Our Name
Whenever I mention Randy Newman to my very short friend (I actually have several very short friends—they make me feel better about myself), she says, “Who?” “The guy who wrote ‘Short People’.” “Oh yeah…I…
