- What the Poet Must Answer for is the Un-Poetic Poetry in Person is a rare gem that could easily be overlooked. Alexander Neubauer has carefully edited together old school cassette tape recordings of in-classroom conversations between the legendary Pearl London and a long list of poetry super-stars. Just some of these poets include: Robert Pinksy, Lucille Clifton, Edward Hirsch, and Muriel Rukeyser. Poetry in Person is next-level […]
- In US Air News…Crazy Amateur Photo on Hudson River It is outrageous that all are reported safe in this air crash. I pretty much never listen to those boring emergency-landing speeches at the start of aeroplane trips. Hooray that these folks got the slide-thing sorted out. Photo from natekoechley on Flickr (HT: @tonytsheng on Twitter)
- Happy, Independence I went running in Central Park yesterday and felt like I’d wandered into another 5k. There were so many (far more) hardcore runners flying by me in that picturesque city greenery. I pretended I was in a movie as I ran by that old lake thing in the center–the one with the buildings that scratch […]
- Fuggedaboutit On Saturday I wandered up to NYC with my Dad and little brother for a Yankees game. With all of the insipid construction, the subway was nearly more difficult to navigate than most of the foreign undergrounds I’ve traversed in other languages. Starting in Brooklyn and headed toward the Bronx, I needed assurance that we […]