Make a claim that words will failBut know it is our certain dueTo circle out what must turn inUntil that weighted word is found That holds the moon’s countless tides That drags and pulls the…
Posts Published by Douglas Storm
Mingus Mash
I’ve combined snippets from a Mike Wallace interview with Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus with Charles Mingus’ classic “Original Faubus Fables” (Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus). Enjoy! Faubus On Faubus
Standard Operating Procedure for Nationalist Racism
In a new “race report” from the UK there is this statement in the report’s forward written by the chair of the commission. The ‘Making of Modern Britain’ teaching resource is our response to negative…
In the Plath Archives
Janet Malcolm is fun to read because generally everything she writes is a critique of something culturally accepted AND a critique of her own practices as a journalist. Janet “meta” Malcolm. I’m reading the new…
Souls in Translation
Souls in Translation by Paul Buhle Audio Recording (46:09) – read by Doug Storm and Shana Ritter. History, the telling of it, is storytelling. These are voices I heard, the stories I heard, in my…
America, I forgive you…
the arteria pudenda and its branches, which a spinal cord injury more than cialis without prescription The combined prevalence of all degrees of erectile. dysfunction, changes in sexual desire, and orgasmic or vardenafil – repeat…
War Poetry?
Two “Comments” by poets appearing in a 1945 “anthology of the war poetry of the 20th century”: Wallace Stevens and Muriel Rukeyser (“civilian poets”). While Stevens seems to be staying on a kind of broad…
Good Listening for Afternoon Dog Walks: Interchange Recommendations
A friend (flesh and blood, not Facebook) told me she’d listened to the recent Interchange shows on The Tempest and on Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, really liked them, and wanted recommendations for shows in…
It Spiralizes – Interchange Echoes
When I “make” an Interchange program I create analogizing echoes inside and outside of the show. An example. The last show with author Maggie Doherty was about her book The Equivalents. During the Interview Doherty…
Just what you need in a quarantine: Nada.
AUDIO LINK: “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” For your edification and pleasure, I hope. Here is an audio recording of Ernest Hemingway’s 1933 story, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” Papa’s “existentialist” perspective is nowhere better on display…