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Books
If you missed the book launch at the brewery, here’s another chance. I’ll be signing copies of A Dance in the Street at Black Dog Books in Zionsville, Indiana, from 1 to 3 p.m. on May 19th. The address is 114 South Main Street. That’s on the main drag, so it’s easy to find. . . . → Read More: Zionsville is the next stop! General
The official publication date is a few days away and review copies are going out. The book will first go on sale in Indianapolis on Sunday, April 29, at a book launch held from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Flat 12 Bierwerks, located at 414 North Dorman Street. Please plan to attend. Meanwhile, . . . → Read More: Breaking news — A Dance in the Street dances into view General
It’s always a privilege to publish a new book, but it’s far from being a solitary endeavor. A lot of details have to fall into place, and a lot of people have to help. I’m fortunate in having new book coming out in April. What follows here is a news release that gives the . . . → Read More: Please Join Us in April at the Flat 12 Bierwerks in Indy Memoir
We can only assume that she is dreaming. Perhaps she imagines that she dozes at the side of an abandoned well, on a warm summer day. She dreams of being safe in a world of wildflowers and green leaves, with cicadas buzzing, far away and high up in the hackberry tree. Like all of . . . → Read More: Lucy in her Bower, Dreaming Memoir
I regret that I have lacked occasion to post in this blog for the past two months, and I apologize accordingly to the Growler’s subscribers and occasional visitors. During that time my attention was focused elsewhere, following the death of my father-in-law on the 9th of May. David Haston was the father of my . . . → Read More: David Haston, 1915-2011 Politics
John J. Mearsheimer. Lecture, “Greater Israel’s Bleak Future and the Consequences for the United States.” Sunday 10 April 2011, Indianapolis. Everybody has read the late Stieg Larsson’s best-seller about the girl who kicked the hornet’s nest. But what about the guys who kicked the hornet’s nest – John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt? Turns out they’re . . . → Read More: Of Elephants and Albatrosses Poetry
In late 2001 I traveled to the town of Hopkinsville, in southwestern Kentucky, in order to give a poetry reading at the local community college. The reading had been arranged by my friend Brett Ralph, the poet and singer, who was teaching at the college, and who is now a professor in the . . . → Read More: Questions and Answers with Jared Carter Politics
It’s called cognitive dissonance – the confusion you experience when you try to hold two contradictory ideas at once. One of them? That despite the financial meltdown, everything’s going to be all right. Why? Because many of the same Wall Street financiers responsible for most serious economic depression since the 1930s are now working in the . . . → Read More: An Equal and Opposite Reaction? Memoir
In deep winter, with snow falling, I like to be sitting on a couple of milk crates in someone’s woodworking shop, keeping company while that person re-works the paneling in an old door, or puts together the pieces of a newly stripped kitchen chair. Woodworking shops are preferred, because they smell the best, but . . . → Read More: In Deep Winter, with Snow Falling Books
Agnes de Mille. Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham. New York: Random House, 1991. xviii + 509 pp. $30. ISBN 0-394-55643-7. You can’t read this book without falling half in love with Agnes de Mille, who must have been one of the kindest, most forgiving biographers who ever lived. And without wondering why a . . . → Read More: Keep the Channel Open Poetry
It was called simply Indiana Writes. It was a literary journal founded on the radical but admirable belief that there were talented writers throughout the Hoosier State, and that it would find their work and publish it. This was back in the 1970s, and although it appeared for only a few years, the magazine set . . . → Read More: Still Another Look at Jim Riley Politics
Indianapolis, Feb. 16 – In a stirring announcement from the state’s capital, a joint session of the Indiana legislature announced today what many Hoosiers have long believed – that the earth is flat, and the sun revolves around the earth. “We initially hoped this would bring us up to the Middle Ages,” a Senate . . . → Read More: Indiana Lawmakers Confirm Earth Is Flat General
That’s the title of a timely op-ed piece by Scott Turow and friends on today’s New York Times web page that every serious writer should read. It’s about existing copyright law – why it is important, how it relates to the web. The thesis is simple: “Literary talent often remains undeveloped unless . . . → Read More: Would the Bard Have Survived the Web? Poetry
Different kinds of literary awards and prizes seem to be everywhere these days, but thirty years ago it was a different story. There were only a handful of prestigious awards for poetry back then – namely, the Pulitzer, the Bollingen, the National Book Award, the Yale Younger Poets prize, the Lamont, and the Walt . . . → Read More: The Walt Whitman Award: Looking Back Music
Music, that most bewitching of the arts, does not spring full-blown from the forehead of some imponderable god. Its consumption is everywhere, but its creation and production are more rarified. Whether soloist or ensemble player or composer, at the beginning one learns to play one note at a time, depress one key, touch one . . . → Read More: Winter Recital Poetry
During the next couple of days I’ll be attending the annual conference of AWP – Associated Writing Programs – in Washington, DC, at the Marriott Wardman Park and Omni Shoreham Hotels. There will be a gazillion panel discussions, workshops, and readings – all quite worthy, I’m sure. I’m scheduled to participate in a discussion . . . → Read More: AWP Conference in Washington, DC Poetry
Poetry from Paradise Valley. Edited by Edward Byrne. San Antonio: Pecan Grove Press, 2009. 134 pp. $15. ISBN 978-1-931247-86-3. No, this Paradise Valley is not an old Gary Cooper movie, nor is it a retirement village in Arizona. Instead, it’s a handsome new print anthology of contemporary poetry – work selected from among poems . . . → Read More: Return to Paradise Valley Poetry
“The total effect of Carter’s narratives and lyrics is the sense . . . that underlying these two books is a kind of ‘Mississinewa novel,’ a long and continuous story to which the scraps of narrative contribute and give historical depth.” This possibility was introduced in Timothy J. Deines’s thesis, ”The Gleaning: Regionalism, Form, . . . → Read More: A Mississinewa Novel? Architecture
Early in 2006 the Indianapolis School Board announced that Roberts School 97, a striking example of 1930s Art Moderne architecture, would be demolished to make way for a parking lot. Neighborhood residents and historic preservationists took strenuous exception. Five years later, after a lot of wangling, the building is still standing but also still . . . → Read More: Roberts School Revisited General
We caught up with The Wrapper shortly before midnight, after my wife had fallen on the ice while coming out of a restaurant and broken her left wrist. She knew instantly it was fractured, so there was nothing to do but head for the nearest emergency room. It was a big hospital. We got . . . → Read More: It’s a Wrap |
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