Monthly Archives: April 2023

Karen Friedland reads from Incurable/Inoperable: Poems and Notes from a Deadly Diagnosis

April 30, 2023

… Yes, we are all going to die. But some of us are going to die sooner than others. And when that happens to you, what are you going to do about it? Yesterday, I read an essay in the … Continue reading →

Donna Fleischer reads for the Edge Reading Series

April 29, 2023

I got to know Donna Fleischer through her online website, word pond, where she shares the work of other poets, artists, and musicians, both dead and alive, one big happy family. Because word pond has been a vital supporter of … Continue reading →

Marc Chagall: Six Paintings

April 21, 2023

… I became aware of Marc Chagall when I was a teenager in the 1960’s. Many of the artists I discovered then were still alive like Dali, Picasso, Georgia O’Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, and Marc Chagall too, whose brides, goats, and … Continue reading →

April Blossoms 2013 (remembering the Boston Marathon Bombing)

April 9, 2023

… Friday I walked through Central Park with two old friends. We began on 96th Street and walked along the stream and little lakes on our way to the Conservatory Garden. There was a slight drizzle for about twenty minutes, … Continue reading →

Jim Feast reads from (a strange awakening of light that takes the place of dawn)

April 8, 2023

The work Jim Feast did in his early twenties in Chicago, (a strange awakening of light that takes the place of dawn), is a testimony to the grit and will of a young man who wants to be a poet. … Continue reading →

Gerald Wagoner reads from A Month of Someday

April 6, 2023

… In Brooklyn near the Gowanus Canal, Gerald Wagoner has been hosting a popular reading series for several years now that he calls The Persistance of Cormorants; so it was only fitting that, with the publication of his debut chapbook, … Continue reading →