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April 19, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The creative impulse, Eros breathing and dreaming within us, is radical to the core.”

Happy birthday, Rikki Ducornet! 76, today! Addressing “our culture’s disdain for the artist,” Rikki Ducornet, in my podcast with her…

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April 18, 2019April 18, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Reading, Writing

“Death and indestructible existence / In that Jazz corner of life”

Happy birthday, Bob Kaufman! Here are some of his poems.   Walking Parker Home Sweet beats of jazz impaled on…

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April 18, 2019July 17, 2019 - Books, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Only a Cry Absent Its Mouth, by Tyrone Williams

Juxtaposition and parataxis are key techniques of composition across the traditional genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. The former refers…

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April 17, 2019January 23, 2020 - Poetry, Reading, Writing

Bird Watching, by Marjorie Welish

Voiceover conversant with Before During After    as much a screwdriver that made    impersonating Red Yellow Blue auteur the glorifying test…

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April 16, 2019May 28, 2019 - Poetry, Reading, Writing

Two Poems, by Andrew Joron

  The Contraries Circle’s motion goes / against all endpoints. Rare area / roar. Space, a massless rigidity / /…

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April 15, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

Happy birthday, Henry James! Here are some quotes from his writing. “We work in the dark—we do what we can—we…

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April 15, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.”

R.I.P., Gene Wolfe. Here are some quotes from his writing. “No man has a home unless he is master of…

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April 15, 2019March 15, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons

“Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out…

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April 13, 2019 - Birthday, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“You’re on Earth, there’s no cure for that!”

Happy birthday, Samuel Beckett! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Birth was the death of him.” “Words are the…

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April 12, 2019May 7, 2019 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

An Oblation, by Tobias Carroll

  No surprise Trina had spent half her inheritance on something abandoned. Years before, she’d exchanged chains of emails with…

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