How We are Perceived By Our Names
My name, Djelloul, has brought me into confrontation all my life with what it is to be an American. In boarding school it was questioned and I was made to feel 'foreign,' but in the Navy it was accepted because I was a brother in arms.
Joan Siegel’s Poetry Shows How Much Society Needs From Its Elderly
Joan I. Siegel, a retired professor of literature, has written an elegant and profoundly moving book of poems, Hyacinth for the Soul, in which ghosts quilt stories in the half-light of memories.
It’s a Balmy Day But I’m in Good Company with Edgar Allan Poe!
The skies were balmy and rainy today, yet clouds parted and sunny skies occasionally glistened through the silent, foreboding buildings. Edgar only lived until he was forty, but left us with writings that will outlast all of us.
The Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s Los Angeles
A bus tour of Charles Bukowski's life here in the City of Angels; Ghost memories from the front lines of one of America's most savage and soulful poets.
