PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll The nondescript warehouses between the tracks and the hills had become a landscape feature over time. The county books listed it as abandoned; yet every year, like clockwork, the property taxes were paid. Engineers on trains passing through at night saw flickering lights and sometimes caught what sounded like…
Music that strikes a chord — “John Brown” Bob Dylan song cover by State Radio
State Radio, performing live at Terminal 5 in NYC on 11/23/07 I’m in the process right now of listening to a 4-cd set of Bob Dylan covers by other musicians, called, “Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan.” I am very much enjoying this set and must thank the library system for having…
DIRECT BLOG LIFT to urge poets to participate in POetryPOstcard Fest 2021, Registration ends July 18, 2021
I’m participating in Poetry Postcard Fest 2021 for the first time. Kerfe Roig told me about it. I’ve gotten 22 collage postcards done so far and maybe half that many poems written. The deadline for registration is July 18, 2021. Once you register you will be added to a list with 30 other people in…
dVerse’ 10th Anniversary Celebration Week — Poetics — My Garden on 071321
The edges of my garden curl along green fuzz, concrete, and stone. Its haphazard, organic growth is both playland and harvest zone; where ants climb and dragonflies wheel; where rainbow sways among today’s sky offering. Claudia Schoenfeld, one of the co-founders of dVerse, is today’s host for Poetics. We are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #92 – July 13, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! I borrowed a series of Criterion Collection films from the library and 2 of them are featured this week. Unfortunately I didn’t watch the special features disk of either of them (there are never enough hours in the day to do it all.) Old Joy (2006) Criterion…
dVerse — 10-year anniversary week — Quadrille 131 — jukin on down the line
When Mama had parties to whirl, she left us at Auntie’s.Didn’t she know Auntie had her own house jukes then?Where were their steady, hard-working, non-drinking men?Gramma and Grampa raised that platter way back when;self-serving dances that taint through the generations. top image: Wurlitzer Model 700 We are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of dVerse, aka…
TSM 168 — Home (for Bob Dylan)
Photography by Artist, Jasper James Slapped by labels, sprinkled with stardust, and he’s worn the tread off of more than a few pair of boots. He’s snapped more strings than gum snapped at a bazooka joe convention. He’s been spelled by potions and powders, fondled by hungry groupies, and chiseled by more than a few…
Tao-Talk 