a poem by Bonnee Klein Gilligan
Ah Paris ’tis the city of love
a beautiful place indeed.
Enjoy yourself and if you like
have a pastry for me.
A croissant, pasty or a tart
with cream, and fruit, and crust.
Such a delight with every bite
is sinful, and a must.
Have [...]
By Rossitza Ohridska-Olson
From Saturday till September 10th, the Bulgarian and foreign artists will gather for the 24th issue of Apollonia Art Festival. The most charming part of it are the jazz concerts and the surroundings of the ancient city of Sozopol (Apollonia – the city of Apollo, the patron of arts). During the communist times [...]
(Pinas is a slang we often use to refer to the Philippines…)
Hi everyone. I am new here and I am trying this one out. My name is Charity (please call me Cha) and I am from the Philippines. I am an educator and this year is my tenth year of professional teaching in Sciences, [...]
A gift awaits you at my site: an annotated page containing Ezra Pound’s Canto LXXXI.
- Rudy Carrera.
I’m linking a treat for those of you who consider yourselves to be fans of Franz Kafka. Surreal-y types rejoice!
- Rudy Carrera.
by: James Schwartz
For a long time and many years
I wandered the world never finding home
Meeting nothing but forgettable lives
Writing jaded memories in a blue poem.
For a long time and many years
My broken spirit remained unsung
I grew to love the dark shadows
And my name on the goosips’ tongue.
And I grew tired and I grew weary
My broken [...]
by: James Schwartz
Chicago, in late March, glittered cool and crisp with it’s modern buildings and skyscrapers as crisp as the gales off Lake Michigan where I found myself seated at an outdoor cafe.
I had been to Chicago several times as a schoolboy dutifully marching through museums but that was oh twelve years ago. It [...]
William S. Burroughs and Anthony Balch collaborate for this slice of weirdness. See the video here.
- Rudy Carrera.
Following up on my earlier post about robots in positions of authority –
Robot officiates wedding:
June 2007, South Korea …
A robot has acted as master of ceremonies at a South Korean wedding in what its creators claim is a world first.
Tiro the robot assisted at the wedding of Seok Gyeong-jae, one of the engineers who [...]
Carver’s Dog gives a beautiful post on the loss of some many of America’s coolest writers. The picture of Tom Waits alone is worth the price of admission.
- Rudy Carrera.
Christopher Clark does a wonderful service in clarifying the misunderstood history of what was once the powerhouse (both militarily and intellectually) of Europe from the 17th Century until just after the Second World War. Prussia was a sort of modern Spartan state, yet this region also gave birth to a vigorous Protestantism, philosophy in the [...]
Hello, community!
Malcolm has invited me to post here because I would like to share some news and keep you apprised of its progress.
Some years ago, now over ten years in fact, I survived and escaped a really terrible ordeal. Out of that ordeal I wrote a cycle of 15 poems (how often great art comes [...]
There has been some debate over the authenticity of Paul Theroux’s claims about VSN, but one thing is for sure: the old guy is a charmer. Invited to meet Indian writers when he was travelling in India a few years ago, he told them that the world was not interested in their subject matter (life/growing [...]
This post is from the Xinhua News Agency of China, and was noted by Luigi Kapaj, who is owed thanks for posting this on a Mongol newsgroup:
April 03, 2008
Mongolia issues dictionary for “Secret History of the Mongols”
A total of 200 copies of a dictionary for “Secret History of the Mongols”
were published recently in Ulan Bator, [...]
Critical reading for those of you who wish to consider themselves brainiacs. The writing of these articles is superb, the subject matter wonderfully worthwhile, and one can fritter a whole night away reading these slices of art.
- Rudy Carrera.
Wafting through a list of 100,000 links I need to sort through was the story of Xiao Qian and Wen Jieruo, a husband-and-wife duo brave enogh to tackle translating the James Joyce masterpiece.
- Rudy Carrera
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