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Grace Cavalieri on Fred Rogers Won't You Be My Neighbor is a new documentary focusing on the life and career of everyone's favorite friend and TV personality, Fred Rogers, AKA Mr. Rogers. For an op-ed about the still rippling cultural impact of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood which ran for over 40 years, Kathi Wolfe turned to Grace Cavalieri who befriended Fred Rogers while she was working as the associate director of children’s programming at PBS. Though Grace only gets a line it is one which helps to answer an important question: just who is this Fred guy anyway when without the set, the … [Read more...]

Richard Peabody Reads "I'm in Love with the Morton Salt Girl" Peabody’s aesthetic is all-embracing – strands of punk, beat, experimental, feminist, and political protest literary influences blend with the purely romantic to create a body of work that is both profound and pleasing.  Eckleburg Book Club Morton Salt Girl is original Peabody. Creative, daring, and irreverent. His delivery on this recording is so sure you may conflate the poem with a yarn by Ronsard or Nash—though, a comparison wouldn't be far-fetched. But be assured, this sure person, somewhere compressed between humor, … [Read more...]

Featured Audio: "The Last Girl," a poem by Rose Solari Rose's voice is as much a part of the journey as the text. Her understanding of (and love for) the music within language is entrancing-haunting, and delightful. It moves me like love itself. Reuben Jackson "The Last Girl" by Rose Solari, appearing in her newest collection of the same name, is written, as with much of her poetry, to swing. Rose has written odes to Mingus, bop, and beats and brought that same enthusiasm for "disciplined freedom in both content and form" to "The Last Girl." Hear Rose Read "The Last Girl" The Last … [Read more...]

The People, an alternative indie-publishing canon, by Richard Peabody In March of 1980, Michael Martone did something extraordinary — inviting a motley crew of indie press folks up to Johns Hopkins University. Martone, a student at the Sems, had begun a subversive mag with fellow Hoosier Michael Wilkerson, which they dubbed Indiana Mon Amour. The conceit? You had to write about Indiana to be eligible for inclusion. The concept a chippy response to the workshop lip service to “place” and very much in keeping with those two madcap zealots. Their zine experience plugged them directly into the … [Read more...]

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pit bull by Reuben Jackson I. Among twenty sleeping row houses, The only restless thing Was the voice of the Pit Bull II. I was of three headaches Like a neighborhood in which there are as many Pit Bulls. III. The Pit Bull paced in the dealer’s yard. It was but a small part Of my anxiety. IV. A man and his dog are one. A hustler, his stash And a loyal Pit Bull Are frightening . V. I do not know which to prefer: The disdain of neighbors Or the disdain of neighbors. The Pit Bull breeding- Or the policeman rolling his eyes. VI. Rain covered … [Read more...]