Category Archives: Anthology

My collected writings and those of family members.

Touché

Posted on February 16, 2019 by JMN

… I was, in part, asking a question of myself: whether poetry that arose out of social media could hold up under intensive close reading. The answer, in short, was yes… As time passes, and the new poets grow older, … Continue reading →

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“One Hospital, One Neighborhood, One City”

Posted on February 15, 2019 by JMN

Temple University Hospital [in Philadelphia] treated 481 patients with gunshot wounds last year, and 97 died. In this one hospital in one neighborhood in one city. As a country, we lost nearly 40,000 lives to guns in 2017. (Eric Curran … Continue reading →

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What to Do in Canada

Posted on February 15, 2019 by JMN

We are an insanely exciting country. Come on over and head to St. John’s to drink screech and kiss a cod. Or let’s meet in the Sourdough Saloon in Dawson City, Yukon, and we can enjoy the Sourtoe cocktail together … Continue reading →

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Broadside Press

Posted on February 14, 2019 by JMN

Randall started the publishing house, which was based in Detroit, with his librarian’s paycheck, and it swiftly became a success, producing dozens of broadsides — a printing style in which just one side of the paper is used — as … Continue reading →

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“How We Work Together”

Posted on February 14, 2019 by JMN

While new restaurants in Los Angeles struggle to train and retain staff, the cooks at Beverly Soon Tofu have worked with Ms. Lee for decades, fermenting kimchi and frying kelp. “They speak broken Korean to me, I speak broken Spanish … Continue reading →

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“Good Mistakes”

Posted on February 14, 2019 by JMN

Frank Gehry: Like in [the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, 1997, designed by Gehry]…, when I look at the building, personally I have all kinds of criticisms of it — I can’t understand why they like it so much. Ai Weiwei: I’ve … Continue reading →

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Gucci Goo: SIC-ening

Posted on February 7, 2019 by JMN

THIS JUST IN: British Journal “Sic”s American Spelling of Italian Press Release” “… We are fully committed to increasing diversity throughout our organization [sic].” (Gucci) (Morwenna Ferrier, “Gucci withdraws $890 jumper after blackface backlash,” The Guardian, 2-7-19) (c) 2019 JMN.

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Fretwork: Positions

Posted on February 7, 2019 by JMN

(1) Positions refer to the left hand (on a right-handed guitarist). The left hand is the hand that fingers notes and chords on the fretboard. (2) The following is from Wikipedia: In the left hand, each finger is responsible for … Continue reading →

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The Wave Pictures

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

He was especially admired by Seurat and Gauguin, and also Cézanne, and later, Matisse and Picasso as well as the perennially underestimated American Maurice Prendergast. In their works and that of many others, you’ll find different combinations of Puvis’s carefully … Continue reading →

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