Possessed by Books

12/25/11

This is the time of year when everyone's making Best Of lists from the past year. My list for the year includes We, the Animals by Justin Torres, and Hotel Utopia by Robert Miltner, two books that run many times deeper than long, each in its way capturing an essence of our time in words that sing on the page. 

ONE

11/6/11  

Novelist Mona Simpson’s eulogy for her brother Steve Jobs is online in the NY Times. His tremendous hunger to live the life he was meant to live may be the most important gift he leaves us.

We joke sometimes that we need an extra day in the week, our lives are so busy busy busy. At 2 a.m. this morning the clocks jumped back an hour, in most of the US.

So, how are you spending your one extra hour, today?

Crazy Good

Time seems to be telescoping at the moment--it's taken me three days to get this uploaded, so please forgive that some of it's a little dated.

10/15/11

Kattywompus authors are up to some great stuff, which I’ll update here soon. Meantime, it’s been quite a week out in the world.

Three African women—one Yemeni, two Liberian—have won the Nobel Prize, previously a near-exclusive honor of male recipients, awarded for their work championing democracy, reconciliation, and women’s rights.

Roots & Fruits

9/29/11

Rosh Hashana can be loosely translated as “head of the year.” I’m working here at the wompus today, on the Jewish New Year, and if there is any truth to the notion that where you place your energy at the start of a new year predicts the year to come, it’s going to be a grand one.

I took a break for a lunch of leftover black Japonica rice, sharp cheddar cheese, and Roots & Fruits--that’s what I slapped together when I realized somewhat belatedly that last evening was Erev Rosh Hashana, or the eve of the new year.

Poetry Reading in Auburn tonight

Event Date: 
Thu, 09/15/2011 - 7:30pm

Tonight at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, NY, two wonderful poets, Georgia Popoff and Jessica Cuello give a reading.

Georgia's volume of Poets Greatest Hits, and Jessica's chapbook, Curie, are proudly listed at Kattywompus Press. 

Book Launch Reading: Christine Howey

Event Date: 
Mon, 09/12/2011 - 7:30pm

 

If You Find Yourself Submerged In a Pond Under Ice

by Christine Howey,  Kattywompus Press, 2011

Book Launch Reading: Monday, September 12, 2011
Dobama Theatre, 2340 Lee Road
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
7:30 PM, Admission Free!

 

The Hugely Profitable Business of Poetry

9/7/11

Duotrope does not list Kattywompus Press. If you’re one of the many writers who utilize their site for submissions, you won’t find us.

Post-Racial

 

8/11/11

I don’t know anybody who believes we live in a post-racial society. Ariana Huffington’s got all the usual statistics to contradict that notion of post-discriminatory life, in the blog where she kicks off a new section of the Huff Post, BlackVoices.

Dylan on the Cuyahoga

8/7/11

Only a few feet of air between me and Bob Dylan last night at Nautica Pavillion. Before Dylan and his five-man band took the stage, Leon Russell played a set of rock and roll standards with plenty of blues. Looking a hundred years old, and backed by a band who look barely outa high school, Russell can still bring it.

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