Which of us…has not dreamed of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical, without rhyme…supple…rugged…? –Baudelaire for …
Shawna Lemay’s Asking
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One-Hit Wonders
By J.S. Porter
Posted on J.S. PorterI don’t think Eminem necessarily intended to give advice to poets, artists, songwriters and filmmakers, but …
Roma
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For Cheryl J.S. Porter The photograph below is what drew me to the film. A woman surrounded …
Poetry and Love in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson
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Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, …
There’s Someone You Need to Meet
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Dorothy Day (1897-1980) “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only …
Dancing with Thomas Merton
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(Photo: Thomas Merton) for David Wagg J.S. Porter I carry two lines of poetry in my head …
First Reformed: An Unconventional Review of an Unconventional Movie
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for Susan McCaslin and Mark Haddock By J.S. Porter J.S. Porter Director and screenwriter Paul Schrader has …
How to Read Harper’s Magazine May 2018 with the Retractable Tongue of a Snake
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Posted on J.S. Porter (Photo by Frances Ward) a prose poem for John Robert Colombo Read the way the …
Books for the Planet
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J.S. Porter (Photo by Frances Ward) for Kaizen, Marshall, and Blake Every now and then something drops …
Titles (In Articles, Books, Movies, Stories, Songs etc.)
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J.S. Porter (Photo by Frances Ward) I CARE. Y DON’T U? That’s a better title than plain …
Black Panther
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for Daniel J. Porter, M.Eng and Jesse R. Guscott, MD Africa. J.S. PorterBirthplace of us all. Ancestral …
Tribute to a Friend – Wayne Allan (1941-2018)
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“There are people one meets in books or in life whom one does not merely observe, meet …
Hemingway’s Finca Vigía – The Lookout House
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– By J.S. Porter; Photographs by Cheryl Porter For Daniel and Rachel J.S. Porter Fourteen miles east …
On The Shape of Water
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A scene from ‘The Shape of Water’ – filmed in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario (HO-Fox Searchlight) – …
I Love New York
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for Rachel – By J.S. Porter J.S. Porter I love New York. I love it because it’s …
Our Lady of the Veils
By J.S. Porter
Posted on J.S. Porter – By J.S. Porter A superhero has a particular skill— impervious to bullets, good with …
Emily Dickinson at War
By J.S. Porter
Posted on – By J.S. Porter Gun fire When you read Emily Dickinson you enter a War Zone Sometimes …
Glenn Gould as a model of how to get your work done
By J.S. Porter
Posted on …the fabulous terror of not knowing before/one begins. Again. Kate Braid, “The Goldberg Variations (1981)” in A …
I Must be Saved: Listening to Madeleine Peyroux
By J.S. Porter
Posted on Listening to Madeleine Peyroux’s “I must be saved” from Bare Bones for Rev. John Porter (1919-2003) my …
A Sister Says Goodbye to a Brother
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Posted on for Kate Van Viegen – By J.S. Porter When Anne Carson lost her brother, she wrote a …
The History of Poetry
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Posted on J.S. Porter for Rachel – By J.S. Porter I like my poetry pure and simple. Bug …
Why Read?
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I used to say: Read because
you get to know your shadow,
you see the world multi-dimensionally,
you understand the Other…
But these are pastoral reasons,
sheep-in-the-meadow reasons…
Un
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According to David Crystal’s, ‘Think on my Words:’ Exploring Shakespeare’s Language, Shakespeare has a penchant for using Un in imaginative ways – 314 instances in the OED where he is the first citation for an Un-word…
Shakespeare’s Library
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– By J.S. Porter O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a …
A Note on Patti Smith
By J.S. Porter
Posted on – By J.S. Porter A rememberer of the familial dead and the artistic dead. Reader of …
Fake News
By J.S. Porter
Posted on – By J.S. Porter Is fake the keyword of our time? Fake presidents, fake marks, fake …
Gord Downie, Great Soul
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Photo by Chris Leboe. (his Lakota spirit name – “He who walks with the stars”) – By …
Singing the Light
By J.S. Porter
Posted on Singing the Light for Sarah Hall by j.s. porter The day’s soot on an obscenely tense face, …
So Lightly Here
By J.S. Porter
Posted on Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016 so lightly here by j.s. porter Writer, J.S. Porter we’re all lightly here, says …
Hillary and the Donald: The Second Debate
By J.S. Porter
Posted on By J.S. Porter I’m naïve enough to believe that society will be changed by examination of ideas …
