MICROTEL NY INDIANA

Filed under:Poetry — posted by jonfrankel on November 22, 2010 @ 8:13 am

Microtel NY Indiana stoned in the car again america’s middle was long ago; this age of what Let me be severe as weather can be and sing while doing the parking lots of South Bend in search of Band-Aids Their flotsam follows them to the pool sneakers, socks, shorts and shirt in a trail that [...]

For the Storm of our Lives is Never Over With: Alfred Starr Hamilton

Filed under:Blogh,other poets,Poetry — posted by jonfrankel on November 17, 2010 @ 2:11 pm

Alfred Starr Hamilton to the Rescue! A while back New Jersey poet Lisa Borinsky tracked me down in my office to ask if I had any Alfred Starr Hamilton material. Why would a totally unknown poet and novelist living in Ithaca have any archival material relating to an obscure poet who at first appears to [...]

NIXONLAND: FRANKLINS vs. ORTHOGONIANS

Filed under:Books,The Vietnam Project — posted by jonfrankel on November 10, 2010 @ 7:31 am

  NIXONLAND By Rick Perlstein Scribner, New York 2008 NIXON (to an aide): “It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it because it is part of you and you need it as much as an arm or a [...]

Elegant Rage

Filed under:Blogh — posted by jonfrankel on November 2, 2010 @ 12:52 pm

Ethyl Eichelberger I never saw Ethyl Eichelberger  perform and I did not know him, but I waited on him a lot from 1985-1987 and saw him around the east village in the years that I lived there. he was a lovely man in those contexts. He was 10-15 years older than much of his audience. [...]