CLASS STRUGGLE WITH WINGS Birds fighting for food near my bench. Why do I feed them crumbs? From E. Ethelbert Miller’s The Ear Is An Organ Made for Love Download the collection of poems from this link. Listen to the interview about the poems, the process, the life observations on this link for WPFW-FM’s “On [...]
Project 60 Friday, November 19, 1:30 PM Gelman Library, George Washington University The Special Collections Research Center at GWU’s Gelman Library will honor E-bert! — that’s E. Ethelbert Miller on the first day of his 6th Inning (read 60th birthday). When Ethelbert invited me to moderate the panel of family and friends on his writers [...]
First, thoughts and prayers for all the families of Fort Hood Army base. The first whiff I got of yesterday’s tragic shooting in the deployment facility at Fort Hood Army base in Texas (reported 13 dead, 30 wounded) was on Huffington Post (I don’t have cable TV). By the end of the day, President Obama [...]
HEALTH CARE WATCH by the Numbers with Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com As I lamented yesterday, health care is one of those areas where both popular opinion and sound public policy seem to take a backseat to protecting those stakeholders who benefit from the status quo. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, the numbers cruncher whose stats predicted [...]
I had Teaism with my friend Ethelbert yesterday evening. He showed me the cover art for his second memoir The 5th Inning designed by Andy Shallal (release date is in March 2009). There’s an interesting post on the E-Notes Blog/E mag this morning: an interview with Brenda Greene, Ph.D., Professor of English and Executive Director [...]
