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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: JANUARY 25, 2023

    January 25, 2023

    Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology was released January 19th (on Dolly’s birthday) by Madville Publishing. Editors Dustin Brookshire and Julie E. Bloemeke are donating their annual royalties to Dolly Parton's…

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  • Thomas Hauert’s “Efeu”: Where do we end? [by Tracy Danison]

    January 24, 2023

    "Efeu" (Ivy) Thomas Hauert and cie ZOO. Photo © Bart Grietens Choreographer and performer Thomas Hauert says one of his concerns over the years has been how people are in their world. Through a…

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  • from “Julius Jaffe: The Poems” [by Mitch Sisskind]

    January 24, 2023

    The Shlump Jess Rabin and Julius Jaffe were walking with a shlump.Jess Rabin said to Julius Jaffe, "Open your mouth and"Deliver words of Torah." Julius Jaffe replied, "'Her ways""Are ways of delight.'" (Proverbs 3:17)…

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  • The Hollow Crown: From Shakepeare’s “Richard II”

    January 24, 2023

    From Richard II No matter where; of comfort no man speak:Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;Make dust our paper and with rainy eyesWrite sorrow on the bosom of the earth,Let's choose executors…

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  • All The Things You Are [by Lewis Saul]

    January 24, 2023

    VARIOUS ARTISTS All the Things You Are Ten versions Oh, I coulda picked 20 or 30, there are so many great recordings of this oft-played standard by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, which…

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  • Love / Hate [by Terence Winch]

    January 23, 2023

    Ed. note: I had just about exhausted every crime series available on Netflix when Terence Winch [pictured here with a friend at La Maison blanche] wrote to suggest that I check out Love/Hate, an…

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