12.28.2007

Poet and Poem of the Issue

Please visit Courtney O'Banion's blog post. Ms. O'Banion has an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from Texas State University-San Marcos. She teaches writing and literature to college students, so you better read what she says. 


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12.24.2007

Primary Colors On The Christmas Tree


Remember the big hot bulbs
we clipped on our
Christmas tree in those
long ago years?
Unlike today they were hot
to the touch - & prolly
started many a fire
as if anyone lived
to tell the tale
But far fewer fires
than the candles of old
that burned with one hot color
Unlike the big hot light
bulbs in primary colors
that cooked the dead
evergreen while we
drank our eggnog

By Anthony Buccino



Remember the big hot bulbs we clipped on our Christmas trees long ago?
They were hot to the touch - & prolly started many a fire
But far fewer fires than the candles of old that burned with one hot color
Unlike the big hot light bulbs in primary colors that cooked the dead evergreen while we drank our eggnog and played with our presents



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12.21.2007

Clay Cole, Four Seasons, The Delicates

If you grew up in the 1960s within the range of the WMCA Good Guys, then you'll remember Clay Cole, and the neighborhood boys - Jersey Boys - singing on the radio.

But, did you know the female backup singers were from Belleville, N.J.?

The Delicates were the original Jersey Girls.

Now, thanks to Denise Ferri's website dedicated to the rock and roll greats ... there is a section on The Delicates and it also has plenty of old photos and recent ones of Frankie Valli, Tommy Devito ... many others ... as they "are still all close friends," says Denise.

And, yes, she has a link to Clay Cole!

Check out the Jersey boys and the Jersey Girls at www.jerseygirlssing.com

Clay Cole

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12.13.2007

MARRIED TO A CHRISTMAS NUT


At the end of November, my plain, normal, ordinary English teaching wife went mad.


She whistled tunes about a fat guy, deer that stand in the rain and told me not to be naughty because I was being watched.

She cluttered the breakfast table with holly until I could not find my cereal bowl.

Eggnog filled each and every shelf in the refrigerator and all my root beer had been banished to the pantry. I awakened to smell the chestnuts.

It was too late to change her or find a cure, I married a Christmas Nut!


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12.07.2007

TRAVELLING with the DEAD

It's a curious book of poems by Carole Stone
to be reading on the PATH train
a couple of weeks before Christmas.

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