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Music Reviews: Jazz Albums from Takaaki, Jane Ira Bloom, Roy McGrath
New jazz albums with tie-ins to poetry, Puerto Rico, and Gustav Holst's 'The Planets'
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Dream of the Rood’
Western Europe's earliest known dream-vision poem, newly translated from the Anglo-Saxon and adapted for the stage.
Read More »Documentary Film Review: ‘A Fanatic Heart: Bob Geldof on W.B. Yeats’
In Bob Geldof, the "smiling public man" of Irish letters finds yet another champion. Yeats' words have never stopped ringing, but his life was just as fascinating.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Monkey Grammarian’ by Octavio Paz
For Paz, language means more than just syntax and grammar; his "world before language exists" is something pre-life, a universe of abstraction that monkeys can't imagine but poets can.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): A Poignant ‘Burning Patience’ at the Classic Theatre
Antonio Skármeta's charming work comes to the Classic Theatre in a simple yet entrancing production.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Nature Poem’ by Tommy Pico – An Epic Poem
If you read only one book of poetry this year make sure 'Nature Poem' by Tommy Pico is it.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Losing My Misery’ by Bobby Long
In the collection of poetry 'Losing My Misery' Bobby Long certainly has a way with words, and while his words do not flow to my ear like those of Dylan Thomas, or for that mater Bob Dylan, he is skilled a expressing both wry humor and many other shades of emotion from despair to hope and contentment within the poetiic franework, with or without music.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Breakup/Breakdown’ – Poems by Charles Jensen
'Breakup/Breakdown', a collection of poetry by Charles Jensen. Can one find hope in poems of heartbreak and loss?
Read More »Book Review: ‘Gotta Find A Home’ by Dennis Cardiff
If you are in the mood to read some excellent writing and discover some excellent people in less than excellent circumstances, please consider adding 'Gotta Find A Home' by Dennis Cardiff to your life and bookshelf.
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