Eduardo Galeano: The Celebration That Was Not
. The peons on the farms of Argentina’s Patagonia went out on strike against stunted wages and overgrown workdays, and the army took charge of restoring order. Executions are grueling. … Continue reading
Adrian Blevins: My Mother’s First Husband
My mother’s first husband, who was the first mentally ill person I ever met, rents storage spaces all over D.C. He saves in crate after carton after crate: paper towel … Continue reading
Charlie Brice: Soulium
Having doubts about why you are alive, why things happen as they do, why religious fanatics burn people alive, take off heads, shoot unarmed cartoonists, destroy ageless art works, hang … Continue reading
Leonard Gontarek: Coffee
1 For the young women going door to door, black dresses, fishnet stockings, asking if we’ve thought about death on this beautiful fall Saturday. For the light that has made … Continue reading
Jenne R. Andrews: Calabrian Garlic
. In her window, a basket of garlic reaching for the sun. She broke off one of its fat cloves and took the knife . to it, using the blade’s … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Pulling White Hairs
When I was a child I’d pull the white hairs from my mother’s head. It was a chore like any other—like making my bed in the morning, folding my clothes … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Strophe, Antistrophe
When the men come down to the water they are ghosts, you can see their sorrow beneath the skin. They come down slowly, stumbling not looking where they put their … Continue reading
Video: Jack Kerouac — “McDougall Street Blues”
Jack Kerouac speaks while Steve Allen plays jazz piano. With video clips of New York City in the 1950’s and 60’s. A beautiful piece of collaborative work capturing the mood … Continue reading
Eduardo Galeano: The Shoe
In 1919 Rosa Luxemburg, the revolutionary, was murdered in Berlin. Her killers bludgeoned her with rifle blows and tossed her into the waters of a canal. Along the way, she … Continue reading
Audio: Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix
Purple Haze with song lyrics included. Biography of Jimi Hendrix James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer, … Continue reading
Jose Padua: The Night Jimi Hendrix Died
The night Jimi Hendrix died I was unacquainted with the process of integrating chords and leads, or with the evolution from mannerism to baroque and then late baroque style. I … Continue reading
Video: “Pennies” by Kate Tempest
A love poem by Kate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes award for innovation in poetry.
Geoffrey of Monmouth: The Prophecy of Merlin
— adapted from the Latin by John Samuel Tieman . There will succeed a lion of truth at whose demand the castles of Flanders and the dragon-standards of the island … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: The Rich
. And it came to pass there was no place left to pile the garbage, no place to live, so the rich pushed all the others into the outer darkness … Continue reading
