Randy Stark

© 2023 Randy Stark Please feel free to visit my website at www.randystark.com. My books are available on Amazon.

three short bits from a poem titled “The Future,” by Lyn Hejinian There’s no sense to things except the sense we bring to them. But there will always be things out there, independent of us, preceding us and outlasting us. Weekends will occur no matter what. Courageously we’ll follow the dialectical zigzag of despair and …

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Circa 1980-1981, Electrum magazine, the Laguna Beach, California poetry scene.  Either I (then known as Randal George Stark) submitted it sans title or the editors omitted it whatever it was. Anyway, this is more than likely my first ever published poem. © 2023 Randy Stark Please visit my website at www.randystark.com. My books are available …

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A page, circa 1980-81, from Electrum, a now defunct magazine/house journal for a confederation of writers that staged weekly poetry readings in Laguna Beach, California back in the day, back when I went by Randal George Stark (LOL). © 2023 Randy Stark Please visit my website at www.randystark.com. My books are available on Amazon.

From The Second Coming, by William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the …

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Over the weekend I traveled to art museums, art galleries, art expos, and art fairs. My itinerary: Copenhagen, Busan, Buenos Aires, Munich, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, London, and I just flew in from Paris.. My arms are tired. Anyway, here are links to the artists who caught my eye: Kwon …

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A man of Sung did business In silk ceremonial hats. He traveled with a load of hats To the wild men of the South. The wild men had shaved heads, Tattooed bodies. What did they want With silk Ceremonial hats? by Zhuangzi (China, late 4th century BC)

Needed some stamps so at the post office I bought a pane of Toni Morrison stamps. Came home and read an Alice Walker essay about Zora Neal Hurston, which took me to the Harlem Renaiisance (early 1920’s to mid-1930’s), one of the two eras in American culture I would like to time travel back to …

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At home. In the shower. On the go. A huge selection of Cultural enrichment This week in your area. Free air pressure check With hydro boost. Wrap your teeth around that! To take early advantage, Navigate to the settings. Activate it. Share. Keep the data flowing. Stamp out unrest. Block that bully. Unlock a whole …

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