Ravi Shankar and Westerners in India
As much as I’d like to refrain from writing another post about a legendary musician’s passing, the sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. Outside of… Read more »
Dave Brubeck, poetry as jazz
As many of you by now have heard, Dave Brubeck died yesterday at the age of 91. It was a sad day for good music, a sad day for jazz.… Read more »
Ishmael’s chowder
If you read the “Illuminations” in the back of Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, there is a recipe for roasting a certain kind of nut … but it’s a… Read more »
When poetry and politics converge, Part III
In an earlier post, we reported on a panel at the Dodge Poetry Festival featuring Amiri Baraka. We talked about his philosophy on the relationship between poetry and politics, but… Read more »
When poetry and politics converge
Two weeks ago, I attended the Dodge Poetry Festival in New Jersey and watched poets abandon any discussion of ‘craft’ and drift into more customary and at times placating readings… Read more »
FRIDAY SOMETHING-OR-OTHER-TO-DO-WITH-BOOKS MUSIC VIDEO: The Dead Milkmen
Before plugging “Monster Mash” into your Pandora search box and reclining with a bowlful of bite-size Snickers, have a gander at the mellifluous jams that came out of the 1980s,… Read more »