Archive for July, 2009
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Poetry Is Not a Racket
War is a racket. … Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. –Major General Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket, 1935 It’s no revelation to say that we’re a culture obsessed with money. That we can’t do anything unless someone makes a profit. Money corrupts everything it shouldn’t: healthcare, politics, adoptions, war… Sometimes [...]
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Poets Cafe Interview with Timothy Green (full)
I assumed KPFK would rather have me send listeners to their website, so I only posted a clip from this last week. Quite the contrary, host Lois P. Jones asked if I’d post the whole thing, so it has a permanent home. I just posted the first segment, with Peggy Dobreer. Here’s the second, with [...]
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Poets Cafe Interview with Peggy Dobreer
Since the KPFK archives only last 90 days, host Lois P. Jones asked me to make a permanent home for the show I was on last week. Here is the first segment, with Peggy Dobeer — I thought she deserved her own page. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Peggy Dobreer is an educator, [...]
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Disclaimer
Yesterday’s post to this blog inadvertently included a well-known, copyrighted image of Charles Bukowski and Georgia Peckham, which has since been removed. Photo credit should have been given to Joan Levine Gannij. Because the blog where I found the image didn’t list a credit, I didn’t either, a lazy and careless oversight that I truly [...]
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
The Bukowski Myth
Someone had to kick the Mickey Mouse out of our heads. –William Packard of NYQ on Charles Bukowski That’s a good quote, but I hate Bukowski. And it’s not even for his poetry, which is mostly garbage, littered with gems. Or his novels, which I mostly haven’t read. I woke up at 6:30 a.m. this [...]
