Field Recordings

The analysis indicates that the author of http://fieldrecord.blogspot.com/ is of the type: ISTP - The Mechanics The independent and problem-solving type. They are especially attuned to the demands of the moment are masters of responding to challenges that arise spontaneously. They generally prefer to think things out for themselves and often avoid inter-personal conflicts. The Mechanics enjoy working together with other independent and highly skilled people and often like seek fun and action both in their work and personal life. They enjoy adventure and risk such as in driving race cars or working as policemen and firefighters.

Night. Lamplight. A lover’s touch. Piano enlarging the air . If the cover design on Peter Krok’s Looking for an Eye were an album cover, the green eye lurking at the edge of Stephen King’s dock would fit nicely among dusty 13th Floor Elevators records, Cramps singles, and Ramones LPs in a bedroom adorned with B movie posters promising doom, doom, doom. It’s a whimsical cover; the menacing shadow on the planks reminds me of a man with an axe. Or a hook. The more I look at it the more I think it’s a hook. Plus it feels as if I’m looking into the eye of the Incredible Hulk, the eyelid as green as radioactive rage. Looking for an Eye could have been called Looking for a door, or an exit, or an answer, or for rhythm; and Krok’s new collection is like listening to well traveled busker, his cap like an overturned spider on the concrete before him, the next T already spilling out of dark tunnels. It’s not that he’s writing bluesy alt-beat poetry or anything of the sort; Krok crafts image driv...

Arts in the classroom. Worcester County Tenth Grade English students make plaster Greek Masks for their study of Antigone. Students were to design a mask based on one of the main characters, pair the mask with quotes that epitomize that character, and write a brief explanation of their design.

After such an emotional high last week O flexes his muscles and gives us a glimpse of the drama to unfold. Check it out on Boston.com http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/11/obama_puts_leas.html?s_campaign=8315

Yours truly will be reading mid-afternoon on Saturday December 6th in Milton, DE. A cute seaside town. Come on for good beer, and great regional poetry. From the official release by the John Milton and Company Bookstore The Event itself begins with the opening of the Milton Theatre's doors to the public at 12:00, with Dr. T. Ross Leasure reading John Milton's "Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity" as a prelude to the Salisbury University Chamber Choir's musical performance of the introduction to that Ode, followed by a concert of Renaissance choral music. At 2 PM the Delmarva Poetry Publishers and Editors group will take the stage to answer questions from the audience, and brief readings by invited poets who have been published in those Publishers and Editors' magazines. At 3 PM the marathon "Readers Reunion" begins. Following a dutch treat dinner atIrish Eyes, direectly across from the Theater, the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize evening will be...

Some great links to regional literary hubs. Check them out! http://www.delmarvareview.com/ http://workinprogressinprogress.blogspot.com/2008/09/delmarva-review-call-for-submissions.html http://www.easternshorewriters.org/ http://wordpress.com/tag/delmarva-review/ http://www.depoetry.com/index1.html http://www.dogfish.com/news/Enter_Now_To_Win_Dogfish_Head_Poetry_Prize/1256/20080501/index.htm

Outside the T The strident chords progress through the neural network to the skin from the heart to the strings on the electric guitar. The people spilling out of T stop and toss a coin or two, the man doesn't notice, he's channeling Billy Bragg, and keeping one eye on his hat. Autumn hats patrol the street. Those who stay to watch the showman witness his hands transform into fighting birds moving up and down the branch of his guitar.

Because Obama has won today one must force change which translates into: cut out junk food, car pool, save, avoid the drive through, invest wisely, volunteer, turn off the TV, read more poetry, read more books. Get off oil. Tell jokes. Help your kid with their homework. If your hair is white dye it blue. If it is blue dye it pink. If you drink too much, learn to like yoga, or poetry, or painting, or buying art. If you hate your body image, change it and wear the gowns and disguises you admire, they are no more different than boiled bones, arrowheads and gold chains. They are no more different than charcoal suits. Because Obama won today chew patience, for long years of slow work are paved only one city block at a time. How long did it take to build the Parthenon? Because Obama won today keep it real. Because Obama won today allow yourself to open up, like the country once was; Not the geography, but the spirit. Because Obama won today eat color, lean your life, give your heart away. Yo...

On the eve of the 2008 election consider the mythos of America, a frontier place where once anyone could make anything happen; a vague dream that is recounted in family mythos across the country. But Obama, symbolically, is a global minded leader, who happens to be African-American. To have another old white guy in charge would be like living in America where Sam Adams didn't throw tea into the Harbor. Hyperbole? I don't think so. In this day of technology, the fact that Obama has steamrolled this past year is nothing short of a techno-geek-youth driven movement that stands in the face of corrupt oil money, and entrenched politics that would make Boss Hogg blush. No matter what you believe about education, foreign policy, Iraq, if you vote Republican and you make less than $200,000 a year, then your voting against a party whose day to day economic policies have you in mind. That means higher taxes at times, but after this 700 Bi...