Yesterday I received the best email ever. A first of its kind. A bookstore, Bluestockings in the Lower East Side on Allen Street, emailed me to REORDER my chapbook Between My Teeth. Reorder because they sold out of the first batch. I’m still on cloud nine. It’s the first time I’ve ever sold my work, [...]
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A while back I began to discover comic book/graphic novel artists and among my favorites is Gabrielle Bell. I love her straight forward style and autobiographical storylines. She’s been published by Drawn and Quarterly of Canada which does amazing work. There has been a growth of graphic novel and comic book shops around town. Three [...]
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Coming to Arizona for the holidays, we first flew into Phoenix. The next morning needing coffee and wi-fi we also discovered a terrific used book store, Book Gallery. At the store I bought two books, C.S. Lewis‘ Out of the Silent Planet and The Poems of Dylan Thomas. I’ve always wanted to read Thomas, but [...]
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A few years ago my Mom gave me a subscription to Poetry magazine and I always have an issue on my bedside table. It’s hard to keep up! My favorite month is usually April’s Translation Issue. Here are two favorite poems, one from the 2007 edition and one from 2009: This poem New York is [...]
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I looked over to my stack of books and saw that I have a very diverse reading list at the moment. I thought it would be fun to list the books and share a favorite quote. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner This is this first book by Stegner that I’m reading. Actually all the [...]
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Every once in a while I get up on my Sci Fi soap box and pass along a favs list, usually a gentle entry into the genre to ease newbies into this fabulous world of entertainment, philosophy, and mind-bending creativity. SOLARIS, Stanislaw Lem: among my favorite books of all time, this is an incredibly inventive [...]
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I must be starving for words, because there’s a reading frenzy going on in my home. Books were quietly piling up and now I can Not Stop Reading. (Not that this is a bad thing, but it’s kinda hilarious to have four books going at once and a stack waiting, albeit many of the books [...]
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Another big fave: Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese poet and writer, who wrote “The Universe is not an idea of mine; My idea of the Universe is an idea of mine.”
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