DISAPPEARING FROM HISTORY In the last months of my career as a full-time teacher in 1998/99 in Western Australia and the first months of my...
VORTICES John Press writes that “The origin of most poems worthy of the name will be either in an image or in a rhythm rather than in a concept,...
FIRE AND RAIN In March 1971 I was 27, finishing the portion of my teaching career that was in Canada and getting ready to fly to Australia from...
THE FRONTIER In 1893 the American Historical Association held its annual meeting in conjunction with the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. As the...
The concept of "death to unbelievers," like so many concepts in the Koran, or the Bible for that matter, are issues of interpretation. There are...
This 1200 word essay on autobiography and biography may be too long for some readers and the conventions of much internet posting. My post may...
The religion here is slick and fast and so polished as to have no name, soaked-up, subliminal and not-so- subliminal, night after night, a ritual...
Apologies for taking more than a year to reply to your post, famewalk; I just saw your post for the first time today. To answer your question as...
Thisprose-poem I wrote today may be useful to readers of Miller's work. -Ron Price, Australia ----------------------- WHO ARE YOU HENRY MILLER?...
GUNONYER, JOHNNY In October 1959, the very month I joined the Baha’i Faith in Canada, Johnny O’Keefe went to the USA hoping to break into the...
At the age of 64 I have a collection of 21 Bach LPs which I listen to as I write. I am a poet and writer living in Tasmania and am a retired...
A NEW-OLD WAR In my last weeks in the classroom as a full-time teacher and the first weeks of my early retirement, in what was the spring of...
I wrote this prose-poem this evening and feel it deserves a home. If it is outside the frame, as they say these days, just let me know, delete it...
As far as the Harlem Renaissance and romance are concerned, keep in mind that: As a philosophical mid-wife to a generation of younger Negro...
THE DANES THE VIKINGS AND THE BAHA’IS The Bahá'í Faith in Denmark began in 1925, but it was not until the arrival of American Baha’i...
A little dated for the rising generations after, say, 1970, these two books by Woolf have had an impact on my writing even though I do not share...
After years of trying to find the language to write and talk about the serious, from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, the ability came with...
Republican strategist and pollster Frank Luntz was interviewed on the ABC TV program Four Corners on Monday 26 February. Many others were also...
COMMENT ON THE EVOLUTION OF THIS POETRY and MY LIFE AS A HIPPY(1959-1969) AND AFTER From 1959 to 1969 I was in my teens and early twenties....
GOING GLOBAL Jazz in the 1980s and 1990s has become highly individualistic, autobiographical, with many jazz musicians producing quite...
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