My friends Timothy D. Brady and Terri Jenkins-Brady had started a publishing company, Write Up The Road, and offered to publish a book of my poetry. They designed the book and in September of 2005, Simpatico Patio! became my first published book, and yet it is the only book of mine still needing digitalization as […]
Some stuff that’s been informing me: Informed from Bomb Magazine “You have these moments in history, whether it’s Paris or New York, when things can happen. It’s not for me to decide what young people will do, or what the art world’s going to be. It’s like what music is, what music was. What painting
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James Baldwin brought me to Norman Mailer. Per James Baldwin they were friends. From The Naked and the Dead: “The only thing to do is get by on style.” The real time of The Naked and the Dead is interesting enough. If it were without the flashbacks, the mini bios in between live action sequences,
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Reading and Listening list: Musician: Jerry Granelli Poet: Bernadette Mayer And here. Writer: Lydia Davis Musician: Don Cherry “Brown Rice” Sculptor: George Rickey Two classical music composers of the USA: Florence Price Joan Tower Poet: Alice Notley Musician: Chico Science Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page at Write Up The Road.
Choice Bits: George Saunders, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf My recent experience reading for the first time writing by George Saunders was like OMG. Here are some George Saunders lines from the stories in his book Tenth of December: “Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.” “Dad had once
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The laughter of women sets fire to the Halls of Injustice and the false evidence burns to a beautiful white lightness It rattles the Chambers of Congress and forces the windows wide open so the fatuous speeches can fly out The laughter of women wipes the mist from the spectacles of the old; it infects
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Starting today, March 19, 2020, through March 23, 2020, Mai Veri Spacial Day of Science is available as a free download on Amazon. The promotion has expired but Mai Veri Spacial Day of Science and all of my books are available on Amazon. www.randystark.com
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I studied with Dr. Science, Dr. George, Mr. Wizard, and Bill Nye. Mai Veri Spacial Day of Science 31 new poems by Randy Stark Release date: 03/19/2020 Mai Veri Spacial Day of Science I lernd of a thing I never new. Grubs crawl on their back Because there legs are not strong So there
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