A few books of poetry should be on every reader's bookshelf.
Spending and Sharing Time
Time, like money, is something we can spend, borrow, steal, donate, and share. Diaries and memoirs are one way for writers to share a bit of their time with us. Margaret Sartor’s Miss American Pie A Diary of Love, Secrets, and Growing Up in the 1970s can be read on a couple of levels. It... Continue Reading →
On Poetry
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” -Emily Dickinson-
Bull Durham is more than a Baseball Movie
or Why Kevin Costner Baseball Movies are about More than Baseball The best baseball movies are seldom just about baseball. Baseball may serve as a setting or a plot device, but the story itself is about something more than baseball. Field of Dreams (another Kevin Costner movie) isn’t about baseball as much as it is... Continue Reading →
Reels, Records, & Reads
A selection for National Poetry Month: Barfly with Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, and Alice Krige The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes Paradise Lost by John Milton
literary criticism: the art or practice of judging and commenting on the qualities and character of literary works
The Lust for Tragic Spectacle
Sylvia Plath's "Aftermath" and the Tragedy Lookie-Loos I am a avid reader of poetry but April, National Poetry Month, is a time for a closer look and a bit of introspection when it comes to my shelf of poetry books. I pulled Sylvia Plath's The Colossus and Other Poems the other day and thumbed through... Continue Reading →
An afternoon of black coffee and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A solid pairing for National Poetry Month.
Poems & Poets: The Mix Tape
April is poetry month I figured it would be fun to kick of National Poetry Month with a Poems & Poets Mix Tape https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Am4snY3fmaqt2KaAphP1s?si=714f-TheRg-vB42bT9GzNg
On Criticism
"My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one." -Anne Sexton-
Reels, Records, & Reads 
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