January 1, 2008 marked my eighth sojourn to the Bowery for poetry. The St. Mark’s annual January 1 poetry reading is an afternoon-into-late-evening event. I love starting my new year this way–it’s a kind of satori.
Philip Glass always plays “Opening”, it’s a pattern for him–he’s into patterns, and my day is [...]
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Opening on January 1
Posted in Quotes on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Quote of the Day
Posted in Quotes on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated
through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time,
this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any
other medium. It will be lost. The world will not have it.
“It is not your business to [...]
Quote of the Week
Posted in Quotes on April 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
“It is done.”
People did not like it here.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
(excerpt of the poem entitled “Requiem” from his book “A Man Without a Country”)
