One of the items I found in Jack Powers' collection. Here is the slightly worn cover to a 1994 thesis out of Burlington College by P.R. Smith and A. Blackmere entitled "The evolution of a U.S. Government Secret Subculture; Its Use and Abuse of Drugs as a Political Weapon. (Ipso Facto on Assassination and Extremism)."
Seeing Mom later today. Right now, she's at Saint Blaise. Here's one more picture I took of the church back in June.
Diana Saenz featured multiple times in the early tens of this century
when she was still in Boston. She has since moved back to her home state
of California but shows no signs of slowing down.
As part of my determination to document more poets from Stone Soup's past, it gives me great pleasure to have Diana close out the month of July this coming Wednesday.
Join us on Wednesday, July 29, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 870 1187 2142
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The title track of Sleeps with Angels, dedicated to Kurt Cobain. I'll be listening to this album tonight. You should too.
Here's a previously unpublished photo of Twig playing tug of war with me to describe my current mood. Hint: I'm the chew toy.
A very different Bamboozled No More! poem column by Janet Cormier is up now at Oddball Magazine. Happy Friday!
Yesterday's Dire today. Hosted by Timothy Gager.
These flowers aren't far from where I live, and they came out of nowhere! Did some housing authority plant these overnight?
I'm indebted to the Launch Yahoo! app for playing selections like this one from Neil Young's Sleeps With Angles album.
Andrew and Vivian Tate teach a lesson to the hopelessy dense once again. The lesson is this: If you devote your life to supporting Donald Trump, he and his allies will leave you to rot in whatever prison you have created for yourself. This is actually good because if you've lasted this long a s a Trump disciple, you've likely done some terrible, unspeakable things.
Poet, translator and editor Sharon Dolin is this week's poet with an ode to summer fruit over at The Arts Fuse.
James Van Looy gets inspiration from Canada's smoky skies.
Read this week's It's All One Thing poem column at Oddball Magazine.
From this week's online gathering. A wonderful night of poetry by a poetry and activist legend. Do not scroll past this.
Last night we featured Marc Goldfinger, one of the hardest working and most active poets in Boston. If you missed it, look for the video later. Thanks to Marc for a wonderful evening to remember. Stay tuned for more Stone Soup news.
Evil is never on borrowed time. It's on stolen time.
Is this a new city initiative? I have to admit, painting the mailboxes purple (or lavender maybe) does make the graffiti look a little more needlessly garish.
It was funnier thirty six years ago to think that an evil president could survive in a robot body after his body dies. Ask me if it's still funny in November. From the Give Me Liberty trade paperback by writer Frank Miller and artist Dave Gibbons. Originally published in Give Me Liberty #4 from the limited series.
Thanks to Susan Isla Tepper for mailing me a copy of her latest novella, Girl Upside Down from Wilderness House Press. The first chapter of the book appeared in Oddball Magazine. Can't wait to read the full story during my next trip (coming soon). Contact Susan on Facebook Messenger and get your copy today.
Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey recently recommended a collection by peot Omotara James, and I'm grateful for the recommendation. Read her poem "Tripartite" over at Coffee House Press.
It's amazing what people will name their online networks. I'm always trying to hijack Wi-Fi when I'm commuting, so I often come across a number of interesting names. Every Tuesday, I post the most impressive and/or cringe-inducing names.
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| I thought last week was the last internet pun for a while. I was wrong. |
John Patrick Robbins also edits and publishes the journal Drinkers Only.
Again, send your poems to him at whotheduckistheeditor@gmail.com
Submit to John Patrick Robbins' journal The Crossroads when you can.
Write to editor John Patrick Robbins at whotheduckistheeditor@gmail.com
Cartoonist Anne Skove takes on a recent hit movie in this week's comic.
Read "She Who Laughs Lasts." Up now at Oddball Magazine.
Another Saturday of hanging with Mom and playing tug of war with Twig and his latest chew toy.
I think this is the longest our hydrangea have lasted in one summer without wilting. Thankful for the rain we've had.
From the Tres Gatos book and record store/cafe. I this age where corporations are eliminating physical media, it's more important than ever to support local stores that stock and sell it.
Continuing to focus of work from artists who are still alive. Sleeps With Angels came out from Neil Young and Crazy Horse in 1994. This was the first release from the album.
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