"Accents" Cover Reveal This Tuesday

 Need I say more? From Blue Deco Publishbing in late May.

Reading from "Accents" at Mind Gravy

   We are about five weeks from official launch, but a few poems from Accents were very well-received at Mind Gravy last night at Cool Beans, Columbia, SC last night! Some long-term friends were there, and I made some new ones.

    This morning I found that Places and Times is still on the shelf at Barnes & Noble in the Richland Mall, 3400 Forest Drive, also in Columbia. I had an event there last July.

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To Aiken, SC, agian!

     I am thrilled to head back to Aiken on Saturday, 22 April! Come and see me!

   
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First time reading from "Accents"

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    I am excited to be back for the third time in Mind Gravy, but the first in this venue! Come on down! Accents will be released on or around 19 May by Blue Deco!

Preparing first reading list including some of "accents"

     What a milestone! On 12 April, 8 pm, I will be back at Mind Gravy, the poetry-music venue created by my energetic friend, Al Black. This will be my first time at Cool Beans, Columbia, SC (near the University of South Carolina Campus     http://coolbeanscoffeecompany.net/

     This means I will retain some favorites from Places and Times and elsewhere, but I will start with some selections from Accents, which will be released around 19 May from Blue Deco Publishing! It will be available at the usual places or you can contact me about a signed copy!

     Now that is what this tea-drinker calls cool beans!  But I do drink some coffee!

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, RIP/Memory Eternal

     Back when I was a teenager I read in TIME Magazine about Yevtushenko has his problems with the Soviet system. It struck me odd that anyone would get so worked up over a poet. But I have come a long way from that naive opinion.
   
     I am glad that the fall of Communism meant that he could travel and write more freely. Reading about his time in America at the University of Tulsa, one sees a picture of a great poet who made poetry come alive for all sorts of students.

     And that is what it

's all about, in any language. Below some links:





https://www.poemhunter.com/yevgeny-yevtushenko/poems/page-2/?a=a&l=3&y=

http://remember.org/witness/babiyar

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/01/yevgeny-yevtushenko-russian-poet-babi-yar-dies-84

How Spaghetti are Harvested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU