Sweet Thames
Through all the world, filled with thy wide alarms, Which some brave Muse may sing to ages following, Upon the bridal day, which is not long: Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song. –Edmund Spenser, “Prothalamion.”
Reading Robert Aickman…
Tartarus Press has printed a limited edition of Robert Aickman‘s complete works in ten volumes. I have been reading this author–known as “Britain’s best-kept secret” in short story literature–for close to a month. His prose is among the best that […]
Featured on World War II podcast, “We Have Ways of Making You Talk”
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN: In this bonus episode there’s a chance to hear Franklin D Roosevelt’s speech after Pearl Harbour as performed by American actor Chaz Mena. Legendary broadcaster Ed Murrow and World at War narrator Laurence Olivier also get […]
On Martin Drove End
On a bicycle—and they rarely lie—down Martin Drove End it seemed as if the Wiltshire Hills winked as I rode past. Cradled w/in grassland waves the lambs bleated me into Blake’s epigraph: “Dost thou know who made thee …?” etc. […]
A New Film: “The Last Rafter”
Very proud of this new, independent film that I had a supporting role in. The latest from the award-winning film-making, dynamic duo Carlos Rafael Betancourt & Orlando Ortega, El Central Producciones ! …Watch “EL ULTIMO BALSERO/THE LAST RAFTER_Teaser”
Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts
So happy to have earned a spot at the Atlantic Center for the Arts this year for my playwriting. I’ll be working with Master Artist, James Lecesne, a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers. I’m thrilled, actually…but rather than go […]
ST. KEVIN AND THE BLACKBIRD
I would also be St. Kevin, and ignore what keeps us from working with him, from emulating his example. I would work to a loss of self–a no-self–only gesture. Not for reward but to strive for the thing itself. To […]