Can't help quoting the "hmmm!" from this piece today. This is a track off Gil Scott Heron's first album, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox (though, it was actually recorded in an Atlantic Records studio with a small live audience)....
11 tracks covering all sorts of topics from religion to video games to short stories....
Conflict has changed Ukrainian poetry, and readings are popular, but several poets have died or disappeared
"Mythril armour for protection, excalibur for any who practice dissention. Understood we may not make it out alive, I've fought like the MC did. Facing King Minos, Labyrinth of Time."...
Hi there Ren, it's been a little while, did you miss me?...
The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: [mabɪˈnɔɡjɔn] ⓘ) are the earliest Welsh prose stories, and belong to the Matter of Britain. The stories were compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions. There are two main source manuscripts, created c. 1350–1410, as well as a few earlier...
I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD...
Bee Talk & Eco-poetry Workshop...
Bee Talk & Eco-poetry Workshop...
You know the day destroys the night. Night divides the day. Tried to run, tried to hide... Break on through to the other side...
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,...
I stand in a wide flat land...
Well, with buckshot eyes and a purple heart...
In the early 1970s, Al Berry and his long time friend Ron Morehead went into the woods of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in eastern California and collected a series of Bigfoot vocalizations called the "Sierra Sounds."...
Full .pdf of the Sanskrit translation is available for download here...
This piece was written about twenty years ago, in the midst of my many youthful misadventures. The 38 Geary is still running. Posted here as it's about time I started telling the story of some of those misadventures, and so am adding it into our imagination engine here on the #13thFloor....
Night...
I’m all angles, and...
Will you take me across the channel...
You've seen the warnings...
Jockey Full of Bourbon...
A long time ago, before most of you were born, my family packed up the station wagon with myself, my baby brother, a dog, a cat, and everything we owned, and set out from the storms of Gloucester Harbor to find a new life in California....
When mass detentions swept China’s Xinjiang province in 2017, Tahir Hamut Izgil was one of the rising Uyghur writers of his generation. Now safely settled with his family in Washington, he’s one of the few who escaped....
Last night, in the moments my thoughts were adrift...
