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May.10.2013
Ten of us came to Italy for ten days to a relatively inexpensive villa in Massa Lubrense, near Sorrento. Perfect weather. Re-visited many places I’ve been before: Sorrento, Pompeii, Capri with its the Blue Grotto (which didn’t affect me as dramatically as before), Positano and...
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Apr.28.2013
Few events soar as this one did. Sally Ashton brought together a diverse group that somehow came together for a memorable reading at the Museum. These are the talented group of poets from Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz and points in between, who read
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Apr.25.2013
I'm pleased to be part of such a fine group of poets, and the displays in the museum are most interesting. Most are from Asia, with many of them from China. The reading, at two PM, was arranged by Sally Ashton, the outgoing Poet Laureate of Santa Clara...
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Apr.21.2013
A novel that flopped when it was first released in 1925, this book is nowhere close to out of print. News reports say it’s the new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio that's driving sales, but as a writer, I’d like to think it’s the writing, particularly the narration. The...
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Apr.09.2013
Here are Jesse, Isaac, Kate, and Lexi at the SFO airport early this morning with my car—complete with SF Giants tissue box in my back window—in the background. Isaac has travelled with Kate before, but Jesse and Lexi are about to get on their first airplane.
They’re going to Oklahoma...
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Mar.31.2013
Kate has been set on adoption ever since she started providing foster care for the kids; she’s never wavered. Nine months of care and paperwork culminated on Friday when the court pronounced Kate their Mother, complete with revised birth certificates. The thoughtful judge worked...
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Mar.18.2013
I haven’t received an official count, but it seemed there were roughly sixty people enjoying her photographs at yesterday’s opening. Several people, including myself, paid $20.00 for the catalog, which contains a fine essay by Rebecca Horne and over twenty well-crafted images of her work....
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Mar.16.2013
While visual artists like photographers love to show as part of a group, there’s a certain cachet about having one’s own show. It’s happening a second time for Johnna, and this time she’s built a remarkable interior structure—something people can actually walk inside of— about which...
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Mar.10.2013
In the last week I’ve been confronted with two accounts of near-death experiences. First, a friend handed me “Proof of Heaven,” written by one of his business acquaintances. It’s much better than its title, thank goodness. It’s the story of a highly regarded scientist, a...
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Feb.26.2013
I'm a latecomer to the Jennifer Lawrence party, but I've been doing my homework. With no acting training, she convinced her parents to go to New York City, where, at 16, she won a key role in a TV series. For that, she received the Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young...
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Jan.13.2013
Stafford, Oregon's most famous poet and one of America's most important 20th-century poets, was born on January 17th, 1914. He left Oregon to teach at San Jose State University in the 1956-1957 academic year. He made many friends in the San Jose area, including the County’s first...
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Dec.31.2012
We're just coming back from family time up at Lake Donner, near Lake Tahoe. A friend made a mountain home overlooking the lake available to me and my kids. We've been skiing and boarding and watching holiday movies, from It's a Wonderful Life to Mixed Nuts.
Another friend sent this...
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Dec.19.2012
“I did not know the light and had thought there was no light of truth to be found in life, but having convinced myself that men live by that light alone, I began to look for its source and found it in the Gospels, despite the false Church interpretations. And on reaching that source of light...
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Dec.09.2012
Because of Spielberg’s Lincoln, and the upcoming second inaugural address of Barak Obama, there seems to be renewed interest in this address, given in the height of the Civil War.It’s the only such address that doesn’t thank constituents for re-election—indeed there’s not one word about...
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Nov.30.2012
They’re indomitable. Here’s what they’re up to this month:
Sally Ashton, current Poet Laureate (2011-2012)
In her second year as PL, after having organized countless readings and sold-out workshops and finding a way to display poetry on the bus lines of San Jose through a program...
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Poems are necessary because they honor the unknown both in us and in the world.”
—Calavaris Enterprise
About Kevin
Poet, prizewinning short story writer, teacher and novelist. Bachelor of Science in English Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, IBM Systems Engineering Manager for Stanford University. Elder, Presbyterian Church USA. Masters of Fine Arts,...
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Tender is the Night The Piano Teacher Water for Elephants The Kite Runner A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Sportswriter