Hour (Carol Ann Duffy)
Kirsten Morrison Published on May 22, 2018 Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour, bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich. We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers or wine, but the...
View ArticleLast Day in Paradise
‘The Town Without Limits’, The Observer, 8.4.12 LAST DAY, Adam Axford writes on his belly with a fat black marker pen, here in Viang Veng. Silly boy… at least he hasn’t jumped in and cracked his...
View ArticleHappy Birthday B. Dylan
Van Morrison once characterized Bob Dylan (b. May 24, 1941) as the greatest living poet. And since poetry, per Muriel Rukeyser’s beautiful definition, is an art that relies on the “moving relation...
View ArticleDylan ‘Waifs’ together again
An iconic photograph of Bob Dylan surrounded by scruffy “waifs” in a Liverpool doorway has been re-created 40 years on. The original was the work of legendary photographer Barry Feinstein, who...
View ArticleMono Loco
Playing tracks by Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, The Staple Singers, Irma Thomas, Erma Franklin and more. Lucky Cat Baxter
View ArticleTABOO FANTASY
She’s The Girl Next Door aka The Sunset Stripper; Cursing her bra straps, always exciting, get it straight, get it smooth, She’s fogbound in The Beat Basement and her fantasies are really taboo, Wet...
View ArticleA Native Nations Perspective on the War of 1812
The War of 1812 was an important conflict with broad and lasting consequences, particularly for the native inhabitants of North America. During the pivotal years before the war, the United States...
View ArticlePoetry Reading by Captain Beefheart (1993)
When I find myself in times of musical trouble, Captain Beefheart comes to me. His Marcel Duchamp-meets-James Brown shtick goes places no other experimental prog-blues-jazz artist ever has—places of...
View ArticleClap your hands
Teases two willow branches Into curving ribs, Mixes flour with water and, Tongue protruding, glues A layer of windfall feathers Onto each, Adds more that overlap Like roof-tiles Growing to a point,...
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