Dee Sunshine’s third poetry collection, “Visions Of The Drowning Man”, has recently been published.
What other writers are saying about the book:
“His work reminds me of Blake’s proverb about the road to excess leading to the palace of wisdom”. …{read more}
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Piano Poems: Live in San Francisco
A collaboration between Ray Manzarek and Michael McClure, this live performance, recorded at an old San Francisco church, features both new and older poems, with …{read more}
The JazzSchool of Berkeley
Is Offering a Rare Workshop by
GEORGE
BROOKS
&
MICHAEL
Mc CLURE
Jazz & Poetry: The Craft of Collaboration
SATURDAY, JULY 7th, 2012, 3:15 pm
The JazzSchool
2087 Addison St. Berkeley, CA
This workshop offers an …{read more}
America, mid-twentieth century. Wearied by civilization, excesses and ornamentation, complications and. All precursors to extinction: The drone of war, the machinery of death, the atomic bomb, crew cuts, grey flannel, and hydrogen jukeboxes. The Beats were the unholy and battered, ...{read more}
PROCEDURE: Time being of the essence in the purity of speech, sketching language is undisturbed flow from the mind of personal secret idea-words, blowing (as per jazz musician) on subject of image.
–Jack Kerouac (1953), quoted from The Essentials of …{read more}
When I first wrote about the influence that Tom Waits had on me as a songwriter (Introduction to Alchemy), I had one thing on my mind: publicity. When the idea for the second article (Applied Alchemy) hit me like …{read more}
Bob Kaufman, known in France as the American Rimbaud, was one of the original Beat poets to come out of the Fifties. He is rightfully regarded as one of the most influential black poets of his era, but his poetry …{read more}
