Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Seattle Blocks — Madison and 6th
Labels:
hope,
Mark Butkus,
Seattle
Monday, May 28, 2018
On the Road in Seattle: Harvey Danger, Sean Nelson and War Buddies
Saturday, May 26, 2018
On the Road in Seattle: Love and the Pongo Poetry Project
The courage of the poet's pen is expressed in Seattle public art. |
At the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle we came upon a booth for the Pongo Poetry Project. Pongo is a 25-year-old Seattle-based nonprofit that has helped more than 7000 teens inside jails, shelters and psychiatric hospitals heal through poetry. A flyer distributed at the booth had the following poem on love.
Labels:
love,
On the Road,
Pongo Poetry Project,
Seattle
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
First Lines Second Thoughts — Philip Roth and Portnoy's Complaint
She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise. |
First Lines Second Thoughts is an occasional look at the first lines of well known literary works. On second thought, do these opening words stand alone as poetry? Today, on the day of his passing, we look at the opening lines of Philip Roth's controversial novel, Portnoy's Complaint.
Published in 1969, Portnoy's Complaint is a continuous monologue of Alex Portnoy to his psychoanalyst. The novel was considered scandalous at the time for its explicit language and vivid descriptions of of masturbation. It was banned from many libraries, and Australia too.
Monday, May 21, 2018
Stacy Rae Lake is Something Current for Now
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Nora May French asks, How Ends The Day?
The end of day at the Mission in Carmel. |
We wandered where the violets bloom,
beside the sunlit stream.
We saw, where on the crystal waves,
the water lilies dream.
Their gold hearts wreathed in leaves of
pearl, all silvered by the sun,
We heard the brook laugh as it swayed
their bright heads one by one;
Yet no smile dawned upon your face, to
chase the tears away.
"The waters cease, the lilies fade, in
darkness ends the day."
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Bar None — Brenda Hawley and Passing a Hangover
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Charles Bane Jr.'s The Chapbook — Harry Truman as a Child
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
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