Goodbye COVID-19!
for my mother who survived the virus By J.S. Porter Good riddance. May I never see you again.…
David Zieroth & The Alfred Gustav Press
“…the sorts of literary productions I’ve sought out and valued all through my reading and writing life.” Russell…
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Poet and Short-Story Writer for Karen Wisdom by J.S. Porter The name pulled me in. It’s a poem…
Identities
By J.S. Porter James Joyce’s fictional character Stephen Dedalus forges his identity in A Portrait of the Artist…
Robert Lax
(1915-2000) for Nancy-Marie Duffy By J.S. Porter For some of the dead, I can’t use the past tense.…
Greta
for my great-nieces Caitlin and Ella Guscott If you think you are too small to make a difference,…
Wendell Berry, An American Healer
Photo: Wendell Berry “Let tomorrow come tomorrow. Laugh. Sleep. Not by your will is the house carried through…
Roots and Wings: A Liberal Arts Education for All
“We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves.” –C.S. Lewis. for Kaizen,…
The Joy of Writing Blurbs
I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect, or…
Discovering a New Writer – Roberto Bolaño
(1953 – 2003) “He wrote, read, and watched television. That was essentially all he did.” – Bolaño’s Spanish…
Intimate Poems
By J.S. Porter for Susan McCaslin One of the most intimate poems with which I’m familiar is by…
Shoplifters – A Must See Film on Netflix
for my dear friend Nobuo Maeda by J.S. Porter “…a tangle of lies somehow adds up to a…
Rooney Mara
for Cheryl By J.S. Porter For the longest time I chose not to see her on the screen.…
Reading as a Way of Life
For James McDonald at The Printed Word To care about words, to have a stake in what is…
On the 16 Occasions When I’ve felt like a Real Writer
Books, even when you have them, don’t make you a writer—the writing, the whatever you do to finish…
An American Gift to the World: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Always, after he was in bed, there were voices—indefinite, fading, enchanting—just outside his window… This Side of Paradise…
Andreescu and Atwood: Tennis and Literature
By J.S. Porter In September 2019, Margaret Atwood was on the cover of Time Magazine and Bianca Andreessen…
On Reading The Perfect Archive by Paul Lisson
For David & Marcia Cohen “Paul Lisson sits in the Bauhaus Cafe, gulping black tar-thick coffee, smoking cigarettes,…
Devouring the Dead
Marshall Soules is a photographer who jolts, challenges, sparks me. I feel creative when I’m around his creativity.…
Greatness: Dramatic and Quiet
by J.S. Porter [avatar user=”J.S.Porter” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]J.S. Porter[/avatar]Sometimes greatness is dramatic and forceful. I remember taking my son…
From Global Village to Global Membrane: A Review of B.W. Powe’s the Charge in the Global Membrane, with Street Art Photos by Marshall Soules
(Above) C215 Annotated, Barcelona 2016, Photograph by Marshall Soules The new electric environment is a collective poem. –Marshall…
Why I Can’t Stop Reading The New York Times
I have a digital subscription to The New York Times. The print edition of the Sunday Times alone…
Shawna Lemay’s Asking
Which of us…has not dreamed of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical, without rhyme…supple…rugged…? –Baudelaire for Maureen…
One-Hit Wonders
[avatar user=”J.S.Porter” size=”thumbnail” align=”right”]By J.S. Porter[/avatar] I don’t think Eminem necessarily intended to give advice to poets, artists,…
Roma
For Cheryl [avatar user=”J.S.Porter” size=”thumbnail” align=”right”]J.S. Porter[/avatar] The photograph below is what drew me to the film. A…
Poetry and Love in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new…
There’s Someone You Need to Meet
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) By J.S. Porter “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that…
Dancing with Thomas Merton
(Photo: Thomas Merton) for David Wagg By J.S. Porter I carry two lines of poetry in my head…
First Reformed: An Unconventional Review of an Unconventional Movie
for Susan McCaslin and Mark Haddock By J.S. Porter [avatar user=”J.S.Porter” size=”thumbnail” align=”right”]J.S. Porter[/avatar] Director and screenwriter Paul…
How to Read Harper’s Magazine May 2018 with the Retractable Tongue of a Snake
[avatar user=”J.S.Porter” size=”thumbnail” align=”right”]J.S. Porter (Photo by Frances Ward)[/avatar] a prose poem for John Robert Colombo Read the…
Nancy Duffy
