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Mar.25.2011 Nuclear Snow in Japanese Springtime: An Editorial Poem-Commentary Poets tend to respond to events impacting the human condition through the medium of their craft, therefore the recent earthquake and tsunami, plus the current nuclear threat that have engulfed Japan will likely generate many poems when National Poetry and Jazz Appreciation Month kicks off April 1,...	Apr.05.2010 Bring on the Poets, Bring on the Jazz Having nothing at all to do with April Fool's Day, events for both National Poetry and Jazz Appreciation Month got underway across the United States April 1, 2010. In Chicago, Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott, whose latest book is White Egrets, helped kick off the poetry side of the month-...
Apr.25.2009 As National Poetry and Jazz Appreciation Month Draw to a Close About a week before National Poetry and Jazz Appreciation Month 2009 got underway, I had the extraordinary pleasure of attending at the Telfair Museum Jepson Center for the Arts an encore of Seeing Sounds, a multi-disciplinary art performance that combined the talents of more than a dozen visual...	Apr.14.2009 J. Alfred Prufrock's Universe Disturbed (Part 1 of 2) "Do I dare disturb the universe?" --T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock My eyes widened when I opened the envelope from the American Academy of Poets, unfolded the poster inside, and read the above quote traced upon an image of a wet glass. I recognized the...
Mar.23.2009 Shining a Bloglight on Two Birthday Boys: Duke Ellington and Johnny Mercer (Part 1 of 2) The existence of music itself is reason enough for some of us to approach each day with an attitude of gratitude but--some of its more accomplished craftsmen and craftswomen provide us with real opportunities to stop, look, listen, and celebrate, especially with Jazz Appreciation Month only a few...	Mar.16.2009 All that National Poetry Month Jazz My get-pumped factor generally jumps into high gear this time of year because mid-March means April is on the way, and April is the officially-designated month for celebrating two of humanity’s most enduring creative triumphs: poetry and jazz. I’m particularly jazzed this year over the poetry...