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Saturday Song: Rita Hayworth and 100 Other Lovers
I like the idea of a Saturday Song. So much new music has been in my life these last few years, and I don’t often share it on the Dad Poet. But this morning, a friend posted a quote on Facebook from one of my favorite Stephen King Stories, and it got me thinking of this…
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Marjorie and Jerry at Midtown
Sadly this is the last of the Midtown recordings, unless I can manage to download the podcast and use clips from it. Don’t know what I would do visually though, and I probably need the permission of either the Midtown Scholar or the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. I’ll give it some thought. The problem is…
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Midtown with Jack and Jerry
Poets in their natural habitat: bookstores! Here is the first of the video clips I’ve been able to edit from the Midtown Scholar bookstore. This event was later the same day as our Capitol readings in Harrisburg. After the stress of the professional camera, the meeting of the governor’s wife, who was very classy, smart…
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Capitol Poets’ Conclusion, Featuring Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple
You know, looking back on these last few months I realize that I have been enjoying a very active art life this year. Not only have I been interacting with lots of poets and musicians (some of them at a local art gallery!), but my sons have even become more interested, and one of them…
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Of Mad Men, Mayakovsky and Frank O’Hara
I was going to add the Oxford comma to the title of this post but later decided that I liked what it meant when I wrote it this way. Perhaps that is the one flaw of the OC, by being more precise it loses the magic implications of poetic ambiguity. With it the meaning becomes…
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David Reads at the Pennsylvania State Capitol
This is the first clip from October 11th, 2012 when five Pennsylvania poets had the good fortune and fun of reading at the State Capitol. The Chair of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Susan Corbett, wife of Governor Tom Corbett, was in attendance, though she had to rush off before my portion of the…
