Harambee: Pulling Together in the Digital World
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WF Pray, Reno, NV
WF Pray tends toward the private and resists bio’s as he says, “It can encourage reducing an artist’s message to biography.”
RW Klarin, Santa Monica, CA
RW worked as a teacher, dean of discipline, assistant principal, principal, and headquarters administrator..
James R. Merrill, Keizer, OR
Wow, getting across the finish line always takes a lot longer than expected. But after a couple editing episodes and long discussions, the blues poet
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After Reading Camus’ “Myth of Sisyphus” in College 1969
by James R Merrill I was running downstairs—What was I thinking?!! I wasn’t. I was acting on a whim and…
YA-HOO by WF Pray
It had been raining for most of the morning and Junior Biggs struggled to keep the logging truck from sliding…
WF Pray, Reno, NV
WF Pray tends toward the private and resists bio’s as he says, “It can encourage reducing an artist’s message to biography.”
The Indigenous Political Essence of Art and Literature by WF Pray
The banner title to this section should raise one question: how is art political? In turn, this issue should raise…
The Girl in the Spider Web by David Lagercrantz
Reviewed by WF Pray, author of A Dozen Miles of Unpaved Road and Terminal Cure Flushing out the plot line…
Something My Dharma Teacher Said by James R. Merrill
Here renowned post-Beat poet JR Merrill explores the paradox of studying nothing by nobody. (RW Klarin, publisher) A bumper sticker…
RW Klarin, Santa Monica, CA
RW worked as a teacher, dean of discipline, assistant principal, principal, and headquarters administrator..
Reality’s Gon’ Gooey by the Ravendove/ 4-2020
Here the mysterious Ravendove dips into a topical groove of this radically changing world today. One wonders if the dateline…
Proximity Is Everywhere by James R Merrill
A new poem by one of our Firebird Rising authors, Jim is the poet laureate of Keizer, OR. In this…
Ocean Park— 4/8/20 by RW Klarin
RW Klarin resides in the formerly bohemian/ hippie district now notoriously techie Silicon Beach in Santa Monica. He published a…
The Disappeared by CJ Box
Review by WF Pray, author of A Dozen Miles of Unpaved Road and Terminal Cure The Disappeared is the tale…
James R. Merrill, Keizer, OR
Wow, getting across the finish line always takes a lot longer than expected. But after a couple editing episodes and long discussions, the blues poet
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, (New York, NY, 1960) reviewed by WF Pray
For those readers in need of a refresher for To Kill a Mockingbird, follow the link to a Sparks Notebook…
Harambee: Pulling Together in the Digital World
Borrowing a word from Swahili, the most prominent African language of East Africa seems appropriate to initiate this collective..
Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, HarperCollins Books, (New York, 2015) reviewed by WF Pray
Can we read Go Set a Watchman as an embryonic civil rights bombshell—a politically confused prequel to the more mature and sophisticated…
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, Broadway Books, 2006
Reviewed by WF Pray, whose books all have well-defined plots. Let me say first that Gillian Flynn is an incredibly…
FIVE LINE POEM by James R Merrill
Always spreading his beat/ blues message in unlikely places, here James R. Merrill brightens a dreary and defunct movie marquee.
Donut Man by the Ravendove
Ravendove is the nom de plume of a multi-pronged creative, whose book (with RW Klarin) Courageous Collaborative Cagebreakers inspired this website and…
Belize: Paradise Found and Lost by RW Klarin
“Ciao bella.” Not my most original pick-up line, but I figured my American accent would give me an edge…