Tag: Al DeGenova
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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