Poetry… “I Lost My Way” by Leonard Cohen 29 Jan 201929 Jan 2019 I lost my way, I forgot to call on your name. The raw heart beat against the world, and the tears were for my lost victory. But you are here.…
Art… On Dreamverse by Jindřich Štyrský [Twisted Spoon Press] 21 Jan 201921 Jan 2019 There are certain books you know almost at once you will keep, always. Some years you might not encounter a single one. Others you’ll find half a dozen. These aren’t…
Art… What I’m Reading: Artist Grey James 11 Dec 201811 Dec 2018 Grey James is making art that feels vital and forthright and timely, and he’s doing it out of muted colors, heavy shadow and ambiguity. This sounds, I admit, a little…
Art… What I’m Reading: Photographer Janna Ireland 29 Nov 201830 Nov 2018 If you’re lucky enough to recognize it, there’s a particular excitement when you encounter an artist’s work as it’s entering a new phase. There’s of course the first order payoff,…
Art… What I’m Reading: Artist Rebecca George 1 Nov 20181 Nov 2018 Amid her move away from Abstract Expressionism to figurative art, the painter Rosemarie Beck reminded herself – and any young painters she might one day address - to aim for,…
Poetry… “Promenade” by Eugenio Montale 15 Oct 201815 Oct 2018 Promenade The wind picks up, the dark is torn to shreds, the shadow that you send out on the fragile balustrade is curling. Too late, if you want to be…
Poetry… “Love Affairs” by Cesare Pavese 1 Oct 20181 Oct 2018 Love Affairs It's dawn on the black hills, and the cats drowse on the tiles. A boy fell from the roof last night and broke his back. The wind quivers…
Poetry… “The Beautiful Season” by Jacques Prevert 30 Sep 201830 Sep 2018 The Beautiful Season hungry lost cold all alone without a cent a young girl sixteen years old stands still Place de la Concorde at noon on the Fifteenth of August…
Poetry… There’s Always Going Home by Gordon Osing 29 Sep 201829 Sep 2018 There's Always Going Home On a last night in London on one of my journeys to Ireland, it was a Christmas Eve; I stayed in a hotel out south of…
Poetry… “Memorial Day” by Edgar Oliver 25 Sep 201825 Sep 2018 Memorial Day I can't afford flowers for the dead soldiers. Oh men lying in the ground. oh how many men lying in the ground that I could love. Summer is…
