Albert DeGenova

Blow as deep as you want to blow…you’re a Genius all the time – Jack Kerouac

Tag: Al DeGenova

  • sphericaltabby.com, “Thanksgiving Poem”

    Click the link to hear Albert read “Thanksgiving Poem” on Spherical Tabby: http://sphericaltabby.com/tag/down-beat/

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  • Confessions old and new

    For those who’ve travelled down any road of literary discovery, I don’t think it is surprising for me to say that I recently began following a path of study that led me to insights I was surprised to find.  Not so much surprised at the findings, but surprised at myself for what I had missed.

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  • Think Of It As Prayer

    Considering our cozy 4 1/2 square miles, there are a lot of churches in Oak Park, the Chicago suburb where I’ve spent the last 17 years.  No judgment intended, but there is quite a potpourri of paths to salvation right outside most of our doors.  Though I was raised Catholic, I enjoy Unity Temple these

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  • rhino magazine, “a good hammer”

    Albert reads “A Good Hammer” from RHINO 2013.  Editors picked the poem as a finalist in their Founder’s Prize competition and nominated the poem for an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award.  Click here for RHINO Audio Poetry.

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  • Finding The Moveable Feast

    It is time again for A Moveable Feast. This is my fourth time with Hemingway’s famous memoir about being a young and poor writer in Paris during the 1920s, but this time I am reading the new “restored” edition.  There are subtle changes to the text and “new” chapters culled from Hemingway’s papers, but the

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