Sunday, July 2, 2017

WRECK OF THE OLD '97 ~






John Mellencamp





FAREWELL ~






F a r e w e l l



C h a m p i o n


BornJohn Henley Heathcote-Williams
15 November 1941
Helsby, Cheshire, England, UK
Died1 July 2017 (aged 75)
Oxford, England







Poet, actor, playwright, activist
friend to Longhouse and many
many others — 
we already miss him


M O R E !













GRACE PALEY ~









R E V I E W


An honest appreciation to this marvelous short story writer —
I have read all her stories but it was only after I heard Grace Paley read one of her stories, in a small town church never mind,
that I figured I wouldn't have to go back and read the stories again. I have Grace in my mind. The poems are at-ease and communal, the essays come straight from one barricade or another, quite poignant.
George Saunders is always unusually focused dead-on his subject. The Vietnam soldier and poet Kevin Bowen is the ideal craftsman to locate this book, and Paley's daughter Nora brings it all home.
Don't hesitate.

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