jon2920Dec 5, 20201 minFinally, Some Poetic Justice for Grey Space (July 2, 1970-December 4, 2016)in January 2021!!!I have had little desire to place words on this site for months--a suspension that predates the pandemic but a prelude for many draw-down...
Jon CurleyJan 2, 20201 minSalud...Salutations...Future Fortunes!On what is the first day of the new decade, I quote the last poem of Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) translated by Alissa Valles: FABRIC For...
Jon CurleyOct 22, 20193 minGoodbye, Saint Nick...Please Never Leave Me or Us, You Delightful Devil!Nick Tosches (1949-2019) Yesterday my f(r)iend Nick Tosches died. No, we were not close enough to be deeply woven and wound up friends, t...
Jon CurleyJun 13, 20193 minAttention, NewArk Narrators! We Helped Build This Ark!This past spring semester, I collaborated with my New Jersey Institute of Technology senior seminar students, Gallery Aferro in downtown ...
Jon CurleyMay 19, 20192 minBraintree Minds Mind Gray Matter Too Political? Radicals & Topicals...(The following words are dedicated to Elena Alexander whose ideas and feedback inform them immensely. Thank you again, EA!) Last Monday, ...
Jon CurleyApr 22, 20192 minEaster Celebrates the Poet Pines!A Shrine for Paul Pines (1941 - 2018) Easter is or should be an occasion for revelation and ritual, prayer and reflection, pageantry and ...
Jon CurleyApr 16, 20191 minThe Early Bird Gets the Word! The Spring 2019 edition of the Marsh Hawk Review now arrives and flies with a poetic plumage of many fabulous forms. Check it out here: ...
Jon CurleyMar 16, 20191 minCome Ignite Spring with Constellations of Waking! Another cause for seasonal joy... Poet Michael Heller's thrilling new book, Constellations of Waking (Dos Madres), has just been publishe...
Jon CurleyFeb 13, 20193 minSketching Ecstasy, Elegy, and Selves...Just Like That.Identity politics are all too often the product of conceptual drivel domains, poly-politricks offering in their activated forms a paradox...
Jon CurleyNov 6, 20182 min"Post-mortem effects, presumably..." When in the crowded company of neighborhood obsessives, bright-eyed neurotics, and blissed-out monomaniacs, I am ever hopeful that a few ...
Jon CurleyOct 1, 20182 minEnchantment Granted: Aidan Grant's PhotographyDeadline inspiration cannot be relied upon. Given the assignment-- whether a self-imposed endpoint for one's own scheduled work or else s...
Jon CurleyAug 24, 20181 min91 Years Ago Tonight......Sacco and Vanzetti were executed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a society largely prejudiced against immigrants, radicals, i...
Jon CurleyAug 12, 20183 minIlluminations in Translation = August Inspirations! The discrete categorization of artworks causes frustration when carried out to formulate--and defend-- a forceful, enforcing kind of aest...
Jon CurleyAug 10, 20181 minToday! Friday, Films, & FeversToday, Friday, holds the white Paper up too close to see Me here in a white-out in this tent of a place And why is it there has to be Som...
Jon CurleyAug 1, 20183 minChains of Being and Non-Being"Marian was at work as usual in the Reading-room. She did her best, during the hours spent here, to convert herself into the literary mac...
Jon CurleyJul 2, 20181 minGospels & Gutters"Though I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter." Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne, June 29, 1851 "To seize...
Jon CurleyJun 11, 20182 minRoth Requiescat but Rest Not, Revelator!Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018, my father's birthday, at age 85. His book, The Counterlife, is dedicated "To my father at eighty-five."...
Jon CurleyMay 11, 20181 minHellerama! To Michael Heller!It is May 11th and this date should be considered an international holiday in honor of American Poet Michael Heller. Born in 1937, he has...
Jon CurleyApr 13, 20181 minVerdant Vikings! Poets with Pitchers!I am off by two weeks in recounting the anniversary below but so be it...early it is, I am, I am, iamb. Dateline: NOW! We are now maroone...
Jon CurleyMar 26, 20181 minEpicenters, Epitaphs, ConvergencesYesterday morning/mourning, getting ready for a long, largely satisfying slog of paper grading, I tucked into the behemoth of the late De...