At the Book Tavern for Arts in the Heart of Augusta

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This is my first out-of-state event; it's only across the Savannah River, but it still is in Georgia, not South Carolina!

Both Accents and Places and Times available!  

Featured on New Site!

https://hlc027.wixsite.com/inthecomingtime/single-post/2017/09/11/Poetry-by-Arthur-Turfa


Thanks, Heather Hall Cassaday! This is an impressive site and it is wonderful that you have started it! I am honored to be it is debut!

Don Williams RIP

    When my future wife and I were dating, I learned to appreciate Don Williams. She had an eight track (all right, laugh if you want to) or two of him, and we would play them as we talked and got to know each other.

     I liked his easy style, the stories he told in a song, and liked his kind of country. I already liked what we would called Outlaw, but I did not like the slick, orchestrated kind of what some called Country & Western.

     About two years ago we saw Don at the Newberry Opera House in Newberry, South Carolina (a neat venue). He sat down for the concert but still gave an impressive show. At the end of the concert, he and his band bowed to the audience, which was giving him a well-deserved ovation. We were even more impressed by his action.

    Don belongs to a long tradition of story-telling songwriters. I use the present tense because what he did will endure. Thanks, Don!

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From Pete Townsehnd and Ronnie Lane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiQPlW-jm90
(C

heck out the entire album!)

John Ashbery, RIP

     New York Times obituary, I will do so. I like the connections he made between poetry, art, and music. And he certainly counted among his friends and associates some poets I admire.

While I have read a few poems of his, I confess that I do know know much about them or him. But after reading the


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/arts/john-ashbery-dead-prize-winning-poet.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

Three poems Appear in This Journal

https://issuu.com/tanhinhthucviet/docs/poetry_journal_5


And this is the first time I have been translated into another language.

New Recordings from "Accents" on soundcloud

For your listening pleasure:   https://soundcloud.com/arthur-turfa-1/accents

Maybe We Forget Why We Have Labor Day

    Labor unions have a bad reputation in some quarters these days.  belong to a teacher association, since South Carolina prohibits unions. In Pennsylvania it was a union.

     Labor Day holiday started to honor the dignity of workers, and to celebrate such things as the 40-hour week, compensation insurance, the eight hour day, etc.  ow ti is the end of summer, but we can remember... listen to John Denver's version of the song that reminds us there is more to life than work.



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