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The new book of poems, Darkened Rooms of Summer, is now being officially launched! We’re having a gathering in Indianapolis to which you’re all invited. The date – Sunday, May 18th from 2 to 4 p.m. There will be light, non-alcoholic refreshments available. There is no program, so come anytime. The place – The Nature Center at . . . → Read More: Darkened Rooms about to be launched! General
The new book is just out. To see what the front cover looks like, click on the title above. For more detailed information, click on the gray square “Newest Book” above the castle photo. General
Where have I been for the past two years? It’s a good question. It’s almost March of 2014, and there have been no entries in this blog since April of 2012. Well, I’ve been busy writing — and working on the newest of my six books, Darkened Rooms of Summer: New and Selected Poems, . . . → Read More: Where have I been? General
Jared Carter’s fifth book of poems, A Dance in the Street, was published on 10 April 2012. A “book launch” was held at the Flat 12 Bierwerks on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis on 29 April at 4 p.m. The folks at Flat 12 were perfectly wonderful in hosting the event. Diane Carter . . . → Read More: Retrospective — A Dance in the Street General
In the media kit that was distributed for A Dance in the Street in 2012, there was this backgrounder: A Dance in the Street, Jared Carter’s fifth collection of poetry, will be published by Wind Publications, a prominent regional press in Kentucky, on April 10, 2012. The new book contains 36 poems in 114 . . . → Read More: Backgrounder — A Dance in the Street 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: Retrospective — at the Flat 12 Bierwerks 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 |
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