Back in the fall of 1990, I marched my sixteen fourth graders down the hill to the Convalescent Center in Eugene, Oregon, armed with recorders, three music stands and pages of sheet music. Free of the classroom, the girls began to skip and hop happily along the road, while some of the boys punched and … Continue reading »
Tag Archives: Americana
Through the window by Rainey Heath
Dead Radios (soundtrack to a revolution) – Jay Levon
The soundtrack to my revolution will be Buddy Holly played on a truck-stop juke-box from 1950′s America. The Unholy Ghost of Hank Williams singing from that high-lonesome place of opiates and rot-gut whiskey, and sweet, supple Audrey. The devil-rasp of the great Howlin’ Wolf as he lead us through the hell-towns of the steamy delta … Continue reading »
Lost Landscape by Joan McNerney
I am driving down a hill without name on an unnumbered highway. This road transforms into a snake winding around coiled on hair pin turns. See how it hisses though this long night. Why am I alone? At bottom of the incline lies a dark village strangely hushed with secrets. How black it is. How … Continue reading »
Betraying Alice Walker – Moriah LaChapell
Lately I’m drawn to male poets. Not just any rather the good ones. I think it’s because I don’t want to just write my feelings. Jesus, we all have them. Instead I want to learn mechanism. Like riding in a fast car with a blue-jeaned man smiling and I can’t hear him over the engine. … Continue reading »
