Me and You and All of Us is a book review of a wonderful new book of poems and stories describing life in a Catskills community with its eccentric personalities along route 17.
Poetry of Everyday Life Blogpost #23 Guest Blog Featuring Torin Reid (authortorinreid.com) Produced in collaboration with Voices: Journal of New York Folklore Introduction
OK, maybe we’re not the “best book group” in all New York. But back in 2004, author Wayne Barrett nominated us to the Village Voice’s annual “Best Of” list, and so the name Best Book Group (BBG) stuck.
Poetry of Everyday Life Blogpost #24 Produced in collaboration with Voices: Journal of New York Folklore Guest blog by Seth Schonberg, forthcoming in the next
My phone is filling up with the dead.
My friend Michael died last week, barely two months after being diagnosed with cancer. To him, as to my other dead, I owe a debt of memory. Part of this debt is that it is utterly inconceivable for me ever to delete him from the contacts on my cell.
Poetry of Everyday Life Blogpost #23 Produced in collaboration with Voices: Journal of New York Folklore “If you want to be a writer,” my high
Anyone who has lived in New York for any time soon becomes aware of “Ghost Sites,” places too soon relegated to memory. In this guest blog, Kathryn Adisman explores the places she haunted and that now haunt her.
We invite you to check out Steve’s new Poetry of Everyday Life blogpost, Folklore’s Four Sisters: Scholarship, Fieldwork, Activism and Artistry. In it he discusses – for those of you who have wondered – just exactly what a folklorist does, and explains this visualization.
How can the “Where I’m From” Poem Can Help Us Cross the Great Divide? City Lore’s Steve Zeitlin and Bowery Poetry’s Bob Holman take up this question and invite you to take a small step toward bringing this country together in their new blogpost, “I Am Not My Label!