Dragoncave (Free subscription) | yesterday
As further evidence that haiku's popularity has spread all over the world, and continues to both inspire new writers, and new haiku-like forms, we present the Filipino-born variant on haiku, the hay(na)ku. A brief history, taken from the publication blurb of an inaugural anthology of poems in this form: The "hay(na)ku" is a poetic form invented by Eileen Tabios, as inspired by Richard Brautigan,...
DWx (Free subscription) | yesterday
Carol Graser , our host, started off the night with a poem by Pablo Neruda, then on into a night of the cafe's variety of open mic poets, dancers, & Nicole Peyrafitte, the performance artist as the featured poet. The dancers were a troop of 4 young ballet students, "Lily Loveday & her Dancers," who performed a haiku to guitar accompaniment -- so good they had to do it twice, in the...
Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Read original... Pat Fenton began to chase the ghost of Jack Kerouac across Queens in 1986. From Ozone Park to Richmond Hill and the Van Wyck Expressway to Phil Rizzuto Park, he has followed the beloved writer’s footsteps throughout the borough the so-called father of the Beatgeneration inhabited for 12 years. Fenton, now 68, first discovered Kerouac when he was a 17-year-old growing up in the...
Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
A postcard with the public domain "me worry?" face that later inspired Mad magazine's Alfred E. Neuman. From Wikimedia. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_E._Neumann.jpg I finished reading Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition last night. It was Bukowski's usual mix of women, sex, drinking, bars, and the race track. There were some more reflective poems as well about writing...
Return To The Center (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Earlier tonight I watched the DVD “What Happened to Kerouac'” It’s a 90 minute documentary that focuses mostly on the end of Jack Kerouac’s life, when he was going under for the last time in his struggle with alchoholism. Overall a sad movie – but with some beautiful interludes – like when Kerouac reads from “On the Road” while Steve Allen plays the piano,...
The Opening Acts (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
That’s a picture of Jack Kerouac’s listing in the St Petersburg, Florida phone book. Even though he long left this world, his name remained in the phone book up until a couple years ago (the phone number still rang until 1999, per this article in the St Pete Times). Why did they leave it there [...]
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
One Fast Move Or I’m Gone is a wonderful collection of songs from Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard and Son Volt/Uncle Tupelo’s Jay Farrar. The material, crafted together using words from Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur novel, invokes the same optimism, longing, and playfully deep introspection that has made millions of readers identify with Kerouac’s work. Last monday, Gibard...
Oceans Never Listen (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Recently purchased "One Fast Move Or I'm Gone", which a CD/DVD based on the life of legendary beat poet Jack Kerouac. The DVD is a recollection of Kerouac's time in Big Sur, with many of his contemporaries looking back on his extraordinary life. The CD is music composed for the film recorded by Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard. I haven't watched the DVD as yet, but the CD is very good indeed....
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Queens has been long ignored by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, but the 160-year-old St. Saviour's in Maspeth has gotten a lot more attention than the likes of Jack Kerouac's old stomping grounds . In fact, Curbed recalls that at one point, "a deal was worked out to save the main church building and relocate it to a nearby cemetery, while the Parks Department works on a potential deal...
4488: A Ridge Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
My apologies for being a bit late with this, but I didn’t want to let the birthday of Zoot Sims go by unheralded. Zoot, one of my favorite jazz sax players, was born on October 29th, 1925, and I for one would like to honor him! And of course, in honor of our blog, I would like [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Two students' efforts to reduce the great works of literature to digestible 'tweets' is all very well, but wouldn't you rather read a proper book, asks Phil Hogan Boiling down 50-odd works of serious literature into two-page chunks of twitterese must have seemed a fun sort of displacement activity for the pair of 19-year-old students in Chicago who dreamed up this wheeze, but is it fun for the reader?...
World Hum (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The Telegraph delves into the ongoing nasty legal battle over the Jack Kerouac estate. It’s not pretty, though it is dramatic—a disowned daughter, a forged will and a couple of deaths by liver failure are all in the mix. The story also notes that Kerouac’s unpublished first novel, which we blogged about earlier this year, will be out in 2010.
Boylston Chess Club Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Hi! Just found out about your organization. I'm a New York Times and Boston Globe freelance journalist and a PsychologyToday.com blogger --- and Somerville resident --- and I think members of your group might be interested in my new book and attending an event I'm having at Brookline Booksmith Tues Nov 3. Would you be willing to pass this on to your peeps? Thanks! Ethan Gilsdorf author of "FANTASY...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... The battle for Jack Kerouac's estate. ‘Use my name’, Kerouac told her. ‘Write a book.’ Heartbreaking.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The daughter that Jack Kerouac disowned and an apparently forged will have ignited a dispute over the ownership of the writer's estate.
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