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Category Archives: 2024

1974 Live Recordings & Shadow Kingdom Document the Life of America’s Greatest Troubadour

THE 1974 LIVE RECORDINGS. Bob Dylan. Sony Legacy. First off, we have the Live 74 set. This box compiles a retrospective of the most anticipated tour in rock history. Back in 1960s, … Continue reading →

November 7, 2024 · Leave a comment

Four New Poems

A Castle On the Cliffs of Nowhere (who) Is poem (sings) The dead awake (framed) In your Brand new Lullaby mask Of meat And murder (who) Is poem (sings) Until … Continue reading →

November 5, 2024 · Leave a comment

“A Bull In the Garden”

If your life is burning, well then poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen Words.  God, I love them.  Unpredictable.  Knotted.  Liquid.  Percussive. Baked and flat.  Round.  Grainy.  Leached and … Continue reading →

September 20, 2024 · Leave a comment

“Steeple Street”

(who) Is poem (lives) On the Holy outskirts Of Steeple Street (where) All my Tears form Eyeball ice (formed) By the Twisting sound Of crystal peaks by John Aiello April … Continue reading →

May 10, 2024 · Leave a comment

A Story Born In the Healing Garden

EPHEMERA. Briana Loewinsohn. Fantagraphics. In Ephemera, the colors are muted, while flowers, bushes and trees, exuberant in their abundance, dominate every page. But it’s the colors that stay with us – the … Continue reading →

March 7, 2024 · Leave a comment
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