January 20, 2021

Power Up

At the very end of autumn, under the threat of a temperature drop into the 30s, I was covering new plants with plastic blankets. I wanted to leave my work in the garden and call my mother. The problem with that is both my parents had been dead for some 55 years. I was in …

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I Have a Dream: Inaugural Poems for a New Generation

Introduction We begin with hope. This is perhaps why poems were traditional New Year’s gifts—for what is poetry but a stockpile of possibilities. The past year has been shaped by the coronavirus pandemic, by economic recession and racial unrest, by distance learning and social distancing, and what was possibly the most gripping election in US …

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Michael Dickel Brews a Nerve-blistering Political Poetry Scorcher

The resistance poet in Poetry Chef Michael Dickel wields his frying spoon with that amazing verve of a militant word-master and that astounding zeal of a chronicler cum griot cum protest poet. He fries and roasts the 6th January American political gaffe into a beautiful poetry gourmet (fusion of visual arts , graphics and poetry) …

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Pearl Charles Blends Tribute and Innovation

With her third album, Magic Mirror, Los Angeles-born Pearl Charles upgrades 60’s and 70’s pop and soft-rock templates, exploring such perennial themes as loss, identity crisis, and relational flux. The project brims with unshakable hooks, spotlighting Charles’s ever-crystalline voice. The sequence opens with “Only for Tonight,” featuring an immediately seductive melody and 70’s-era beats à …

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