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The 2008 Rochester International Jazz Fest is in full swing, and this page has been taken over and re-dubbed for the week. If you are looking for other RIJF goers who seek virtual and face-to-face interactions, check these guys out: Jazz Rochester
Fretful...
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The 2008 Rochester International Jazz Fest is in full swing, and this page has been taken over and re-dubbed for the week. If you are looking for other RIJF goers who seek virtual and face-to-face interactions, check these guys out: Jazz Rochester
Fretful...
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Have you ever watched Télemundo as a non-Spanish speaker, or asked for directions in Hong Kong? Seeing Jacob Anderskov at the Lutheran Church last night was a bit like that, if the person giving directions was a brilliant poet. Anderskov amazed me. I...
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The 2008 Rochester International Jazz Fest is in full swing, and this page has been taken over and re-dubbed for the week. If you are looking for other RIJF goers who seek virtual and face-to-face interactions, check these guys out: Jazz Rochester
Fretful...
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The 2008 Rochester International Jazz Fest is in full swing, and this page has been taken over and redubbed for the week. If you are looking for other RIJF goers who seek virtual and face-to-face interactions, check these guys out: Jazz Rochester
Fretful...
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It is fundamentally incorrect to contrast bourgeois culture and bourgeois art with proletarian culture and proletarian art. The latter will never exist, because the proletarian regime is temporary and transient. The historic significance and the moral...
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I got the following in my e-mail. Since next month is National Poetry Month, I decided to pass it along. It came from Dee Rimbaud, author of some of the books above. Let me know if anyone sends something in.
The Melted Rubber Humans are looking...
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I am running Poetry Madness again this year, but I am hosting it on my classroom website. You will need to create a user account through Edublogs to participate. I’d love to have some outside opinions of the sixty-four poems to use with my students...
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Timothy Egan’s response to Steve Jobs, who said, “the fact is that people don’t read anymore.”
The shortlist for the Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the year.
Will Ashford’s book art.
Lee Kottner’s two part post...
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“I’m hip about time.” - Captain America (Peter Fonda) in Easy Rider We are anything but timely here at Cup O’ Books. We do try though. I mean, come on dude. I gots a blog, right!?
Speaking of time, racial politics is always a sticky...
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“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.” - Samuel P. Huntington Can one support the troops...
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I don’t know about you, but the dribble that comes from the presidential candidates via electronic media arrives in piles and says nothing about what we can expect if they win. The solution? Read their books. So which Presidential candidate is worth...
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Wit is a commodity that defies free market forces. Always in short supply, it is usually undervalued because at any moment it can turn on you. A good time to measure a man’s value is when he is staring at the business end of a biting wit. Where...
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As my 39th birthday approaches, I wrestle more and more with time. Impending death focuses the mind, right? Well, it’s not as bad as all that, really, but like an invasive species, I find myself appreciating time’s aesthetic while wanting...
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The Devil of Great Island by Emerson W. Baker was released at the beginning of last month. I assume the book’s marketing team figured since they had a piece on witchcraft, a pre-Halloween release might boost initial sales. As the book is an excellent...
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