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Saturday Song for the Season with Tori Amos
I have lots of other things to blog about but the phrase from an old song, “We need a little Christmas–right this very minute” keeps coming to mind. I’ll share that one soon enough but as my sweetheart is napping on the sofa, a YouTube playlist of Tori Amos songs reeling away on the TV,…
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Featuring Daryl Sznyter
Originally posted on Word Fountain: While we are busily working on the upcoming winter issue of Word Fountain (Look for announcements about our release party at the Osterhout, scheduled for January 5th at 6:30 pm!) we’ll continue to share some of the exciting activities and accomplishments of our contributors. That includes writers from previous and…
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How I Learned to Stop Analyzing and Embrace “The Hug,” with Tess Gallagher
Originally posted on David J Bauman: The Monkey Prodigy Loves Hugs I thought of the title “Saved by ‘The Hug,’” but that seemed just a tad too cute. There is something transcendent though in this poem. I wanted to title this post with something about becoming totally engrossed in the unexpected. I thought of the…
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Come with Us, a Saturday Song with Sophie
Sophie Ellis-Bextor is back! Her new album Familia was released in September, with this as the first single. “In a hazy state of mind you’ll believe this stuff.” Appropriate timing, I think. Related articles Saturday Songs with Sophie Ellis-Bextor and the New Radicals Saturday Songs with Vampires Saturday Song, Cleopatra Part 2
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Saturday Song Flashback with Fiona Apple
Okay, in my effort to not “praise the devil” by making “injustice the only / measure of our attention (Jack Gilbert, “A Brief for the Defense“),” how about a Throwback Saturday? Okay, so that’s not really a thing. So let’s just call it a Fiona Flashback. A bit about “making it new.” Read the original…
