Click Here to Read: Review of Fela’s Story by Phyllis Beren on the Krikus Reviews website.
Click Here to Read about an Purchase: Fela’s Story: Memoir of a Displaced Family by Phyllis Beren on the IPBooks website.
Category: Literature
How Pandemics Seep into Literature
Click Here to Read: How Pandemics Seep into Literature By Elizabeth Outka the Paris Review on April 8, 2020.
1918 flu epidemic: the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in use as a temporary hospital. The photograph depicts volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tending influenza sufferers in the Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California, during the influenza pandemic of 1918.
POETRY MONDAY: April 6, 2020
Jay Rubin
Is it safe to say “Happy Poetry Month” at a time like this – when so many people are frightened, huddled in their homes – if they have homes? Yet poetry has a way of keeping us in touch with existential reality, music for the soul and mind – so yes, I’m indeed saying it. Happy Poetry Month!!!
As always in April, I’m asking you to support poets and poetry by buying their books; this time, when physical bookstores are closed, you can call them and have them mail the books to you or you can order them yourself, online. Please do. I don’t need to remind readers of this column that a book of poems can reward you again and again.
The poet we have for you today, Jay Rubin, has had and continues to have a very interesting life. Well-traveled, as you will see from his poems, he is also, like so many of our poets, multi-talented. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 6, 2020
