In his magical camera tour around the town where he lived, Meatyard conjured ghosts of the past from his flesh-and-blood present. He showed us landscapes, people, run-down buildings, proper suburbs, his family and sometimes himself, shadowed and elusive, in styles ranging from serenely abstract to theatrically Southern Gothic.

Rocco DiLeonardi, O.Carm.
Of the St. Elias Community in Joliet
 
Died shortly before 10:00 AM on Saturday, December 4, 2004
 
Wake
Tuesday, December 7, 2004 4:00-7:00 PM
National Shrine of St. Therese
Darien IL
 
Mass of Christian Burial
Tuesday, December 7, 2004 at 7:30 PM
National Shrine of St. Therese
Darien, IL
 
Burial
Mt. Olivet Cemetery
11:00 AM on Wednesday, December 8, 2004
 
May He Rest in Peace

rocco was a good man... a good friend...

The life of the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1965) might itself be the subject of a long narrative poem.... marjorie perloff

What makes Chekhov so inestimably precious is that he is a writer who lets life have the last word.

suzanne's going wild with her camera... lucky us

amy king is chris murray's tex files poet of the week...

Would Jesus Ban This Ad?

On cat-pee stains and dry cleaning...

It was this thinking that had led the label to turn down Elvis Presley in 1955 and the first American album by the Beatles in 1963.

I liked his poems right enough
that I stopped holding my breath
when I wait on him.

now they write for forty minutes... an a.p. prompt... this one from a recent exam presents them with a passage from Tom Jones... where squire allworthy finds a baby in his bed... and they are asked to "analyze the techniques that Fielding employs to characterize Mr. Allworthy and Mrs. Deborah Wilkins"... it's a funny passage... makes me want to read that whole big book again...

but here i am... a teacher who's been at it for about 28 years... i'm trying to remember myself in high school long ago... would i ever have imagined myself in the year 2004 doing this... in those years i was (mostly) alternately bored and terrified... long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of utter terror... not unlike a soldier's experience in war (so i've heard)... didn't spend a lot of time considering my future... but it was a rat gnawing somewhere inside... i must have lived in hope that i would turn into something... as bad as things felt then, i must have believed in the future... books were the best of my present then...

Kirkville - Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea by Kirk McElhearn

o boy... erin's book steps into the real world...

aberrant maps... imaginary places... for laughs and dreams...

Association for the Study of Literature & Environment

Great Stories, People, Books & Events in Literary History

HomeGrown

In the absence of God or spirituality, in the absence of a capacity to respond to seasonal patterns and natural rhythms, and in the absence of meaningful social rituals, people are grasping onto whatever they can to help ground them in their communities. If that means spending days at a time in a crowded mall, then that's what we do. That becomes the ritual.

Shakespeare's Life and Times: Main Menu

From this poem, I learned that poetry had more potential for transmitting sense and ineffability than anything else.

Edgar Allen Poe: The Complete Works[sic]

China's explosive economic growth is outpacing environmental protection efforts, leaving the country awash in "out of control" acid rain, the China Daily said Tuesday.

Uneventful tale is nonetheless intense -- and elegantly told

from the buffalo poetics list:

i think it was
joel oppenheimer
who said
if you are a poet at twenty
it's because you are twenty
if you are a poet at forty
it's because you are a poet.

Status.Blogger.Com

The burning of fossil fuels and wood is cutting life expectancy in some parts of Europe by up to two years, despite a significant reduction in other pollutants, the United Nations said Monday.

The Overlooked Master - How poetic history conspired against Richard Wilbur. By James Longenbach

Merriam-Webster Online: Main Entry: parable
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin parabola, from Greek parabolE comparison, from paraballein to compare,
Definition: a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle

Emerson on Wealth...
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He fails to make his place good in the world, unless he not only pays his debt, but also adds something to the common wealth. Nor can he do justice to his genius, without making some larger demand on the world than a bare subsistence. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Estabrook woods, Concord, Mass.