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October 17: Sussex University; October 24: Brookes Oxford First of all, Brookes Oxford is a new university in Oxford, not the ancient dreaming spires establishment. It was named in 1992 to honor its first principal … but was previously known … Read More
The other Martha King died more than a year ago. But because she was a skilled and frequently published translator and editor of writings by Italian women, she will continue to be the “other Martha King.” Information about her books … Read More
A daughter turns 50 this Groundhog Day have no concept to fit this. 50? The other daughter is very soon 49. I have an overstuffed memory. Shrink. But I forget too much. Stretch. Personally I’m sure I’m not older than … Read More
Or “Le cadavre / exquis / boira / le vin / nouveau” As the opening act of David Kirchenbaum’s marvelous Boog City Poetry and Music Festival this August, Elinor Nauen and I concocted a variant of the rolling or exquisite … Read More
Two web publications in one month from what may someday be my memoir book … long in progress. Memoir is a tricky calling at best.All memory is fiction, remade in the moment of the cognitive process, and much fiction the … Read More
A Berth in the Haven, from a memoir by Martha King, is online in EOAGH – with fat tags: Paul Blackburn, Thomas Jefferson College, National Poetry Festival 1971, Robert vas Diaz, Dan Gerber, Basil King — and a reproduction of … Read More
There are other spellings…this is the one Andrei Codrescu has embraced. She, She Here, the iconic spinner of tales and excursions, of conversations long into the night. Why is she our ever-fascinating icon? Weak words can save lives? Hers did. … Read More
I had my first office job in San Francisco, c. 1959. Typing insurance policies. On forms with six carbon copies. Before computers, before, before, before. Electric typewriters with variable-space characters were brand new, and a bane on us because W … Read More
We’ve put another odd couple together, although Diane (Simmons) and Mitch (Levenberg) actually know each other. Mitch is coffeeshop counters in the city, subways, garbage cans going crash in the night, misconceptions…. Diane is pickup trucks with bad alternators, roadside … Read More