Two divas who reign currently over the global pop world—Taylor Swift and Beyoncé—released major records this year. Both rocketed into music as teen phenoms; both eventually wrested complete managerial, fiduciary, and aesthetic control into their own hands, and they’ve both flourished. No one tells them what to do. They choose the other artists they want […]
There’s much to appreciate in Kerouac’s haiku descriptions of human emotions and humanity: Her yellow dolls bowing on the shelf— My dead step grandmother The artifacts of the person now dead stand in that person’s place, and continue to articulate who she was. Are they bowing to her? I rather think they’re […]
Allen Ginsberg liked to say, “Notice what you notice,” by way of meditative writing advice. We notice things, but then we’re in a hurry and already on to the next one. Or we self-edit, and tell ourselves what we saw has no importance or meaning, and paper it over with something else. But things do […]
