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Gar (Shenandoah)
Have you ever had a ‘pauletate’? No. Do you know what an ‘armournte’ is? No. If you were given a bag of wool what would you do with it?... READ MORE at ShenandoahAdios Puerto Lempira (3:AM Magazine)
This happened yesterday. Or maybe a long time ago. No, it’s happening right now. The sky is the colour of blister water, and ... READ MORE at 3:AM MagazineBuckets (Baltimore Review)
The boat was carrying buckets, several thousand of them, in the hold, by way of Panama––we had made the canal ... READ MORE at the Baltimore ReviewBorn (Drunken Boat)
In the spring, he started cutting school, hiding behind a gardenia bush in the backyard ... READ MORE at Drunken BoatFrida (Fleeting magazine)
If you travel far inside the one you love, into the distant continents that lie beyond the breakwaters ... READ MORE at Fleeting magazineWetlands (Drunken Boat)
We park along a culvert in a graveled pullover, out past Opa-Locka, beyond the developments. Miami lies east of us, its flatlands radiating in darkness ... READ MORE at Drunken BoatAshwini Alli (The Linnet’s Wings)
Ashwini Alli walks up the steps of the Jay Street station into winter light that falls colorless and chilly through the squared-off stone ... READ MORE at The Linnet's WingsShort Fiction (print)
Receptacle (Saranac Review)
Jules had been at work for an hour or so when he bent to retrieve something in the wastebasket, thrown there accidentally—which was not like him.... Saranac ReviewIvy’s Right (Ledge No. 32)
The boat was carrying buckets, several thousand of them, in the hold, by way of Panama––we had made the canal ... The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine No. 32-
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Genesis of a P.J. Harvey Fanboi
It’s a bit strange to find yourself mugged by a record album. At a certain age, that is. Young, it’s normal. But that obsessive, slightly sweaty, adolescent quality that goes along with getting a song stuck in the cerebral cortex … Continue reading
Musical Chairs, Part 2
The rules: two songs from roughly the same era whose relationship says something suggestive about the time, the place. Here’s Louis Armstrong, Sweethearts on Parade, 1930, and Jimmy Rodgers, Gambling Barroom Blues, 1932:
A Love Song À La Française for Valentines Day
Julien Clerc manages that sweetly inconsequential category, the love song, as well as anybody in the world. This one is sweet and silly in just the right measures. Happy Valentine’s Day to all.
Musical Chairs
So the idea is this: find two songs (hereinafter referred to as “popular music artifacts”) from a particular era (loosely defined) that separately neither sum up, represent, nor even perhaps act as exemplars of that era but whose relationship forms … Continue reading