Brian Jackson reads from his new book today and Brian sounds like Jim Morrison! For those who have heard tapes of The Doors legend reading his poetry … his voice is mesmerizing and beautiful. So, Poets in the Parlor today is a 2 o’clock treat. Only an hour of your day. (Plus, Brian used to […]
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Star bards
Two local college writing professors, one retired and one not, playfully post on their book-signing invitation “Two Poets Journey to The Holy Land.” You’re invited to this journey where you can get one of John Knoepfle’s books, Shadows and Starlight, and a signature, or Brian Jackson’s newly published, From Delancey West, and a signature. The […]
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Finely crafted verse
I first met Hugh Moore in Allen Ginsberg’s living room, which often served as an auxiliary classroom for Naropa Institute, home to The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. We spent a solid three hours discussing Ezra Pound’s poetics before going to the weekly poetry reading. At the time (1981), I was astounded (and very […]
