For My Mother, on Her 80th Birthday
Sean Murphyi. August 2002 – August 2023 (August 23, 1943 – August 23, 2023) Twenty-one years,...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH BEN PURKERT, AUTHOR OF ‘THE MEN CAN’T BE SAVED’
Writers strikes. Fear and Loathing of all-things-AI. Cutbacks within the industry and academia. One could be forgiven for assuming...
8/15/79: Apocalypse Now
Released in theaters on this date, 44 years ago. Anyone out there who has not...
Robbie Robertson: The Man in the Band
When it comes to The Band, I’ve always been inflexible in my opinion that their...
Be at Peace, Sweet Sinéad
She was brave. She was beautiful. She was brilliant. We all found our lives enriched...
The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting: Why Milan Kundera Matters
i. Kundera almost killed me, still in my creative cradle, a writer needing nourishment. He...
Original Poem: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, 1967: MUHAMMAD ALI REFUSES ARMY INDUCTION*
My thanks to Words & Sports Quarterly for publishing my poem about how America handled...
Original Poem: The Unsatisfactory Suicide Note
Four summers ago, almost to the day, a friend took his life, and his life...
Original Poem: On This Day in History, 4877 B.C.: Universe is created, according to Kepler.*
It’s always a fresh thrill to see one’s work find the right publisher, and I’ve...
Jim Morrison: Still Hot, Still Sexy, Still Dead
Jim Morrison took his last bath on July 3, 1971 in Paris. R.I.P. Lizard King....