Interview with Venezuelan poet, editor, and short story writer Maria Gabriela Madrid.
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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 »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 »Jim Morrison: Unlocking The Doors, 50 Years On
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of 'The Doors' and the Summer of Love.
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.
Read More »Music Review: Moor Mother – ‘Fetish Bones’
Moor Mother's 'Fetish Bones' is a tough, difficult recording by an incredibly gifted and honest artist.
Read More »Book Review: ‘If I Forget You’ by Thomas Christopher Greene
'If I Forget You' by Thomas Christopher Greene is the tale of two lovers finding each other again after years and lives apart.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Song of Myself: The Words of Walt Whitman’ by Matthew Aughenbaugh
Weaving together a series of Whitman's writings into a dramatic narrative monologue that forms a kind of selective biography, the actor pays a serious, loving, and artfully imagined tribute to the great American poet.
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