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Rochester International Jazz Festival 2008 Day 6 and Day 8

CUP O' BOOKS — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:56:46 GMT

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...(read more)

Rochester International Jazz Festival 2008 Days 4 and 5

CUP O' BOOKS — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:27:54 GMT

Rochester International Jazz Festival 2008 Day 2 and Day 3

CUP O' BOOKS — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:02:24 GMT

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...(read more)

Rochester International Jazz Fest 2008 Day One

CUP O' BOOKS — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:22:19 GMT

Rochester International Jazz Fest 2008

CUP O' BOOKS — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:00:05 GMT

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...(read more)

A Review of The Solitary Vice by Mikita Brottman

CUP O' BOOKS — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:29:57 GMT

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...(read more)

The Melted Rubber Humans - Poetry Submissions

CUP O' BOOKS — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:46:36 GMT

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...(read more)

Poetry Madness 2008

CUP O' BOOKS — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:20:24 GMT

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...(read more)

Worth A Look

CUP O' BOOKS — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:27:42 GMT

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...(read more)

Bomani Armah’s Read A Book

CUP O' BOOKS — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:18:49 GMT

“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...(read more)

A Review of Soldier’s Heart by Elizabeth D. Samet

CUP O' BOOKS — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:25:42 GMT

“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...(read more)

Books by Presidential Candidates

CUP O' BOOKS — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:56:59 GMT

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...(read more)

Hugh Massingberd

CUP O' BOOKS — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:34:38 GMT

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...(read more)

A Review of Bones Rocks and Stars by Chris Turney

CUP O' BOOKS — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

A Review of The Devil of Great Island by Emerson W. Baker

CUP O' BOOKS — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:03:32 GMT

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...(read more)