Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Sitting In Front of Picasso's "Self-Portrait in Straw Hat," While Writing a Letter to Abe

Witnessing Alzheimer's: A Caregiver's View update, October 19, 2010

NOTE:
Jack Straw Productions curates SAM WORD, October 21, 2010, 7:30 - 8:30 pm, third floor galleries. I will be reading, along with Tara Roth and Denise Calvetti Michaels. Please join us in the third floor galleries.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

J.W. Marshall & the Poetry of Illness

by Esther Altshul Helfgott

Of the mountain of books I have used to help me manage my life during Abe's illness, J.W. Marshall's Meaning A Cloud sits at the top. Marshall's first full-length collection of poetry, Meaning A Cloud carries us from the accident-site where he was struck by a car, to his Seattle neighborhood and, finally, through his mother's stroke and subsequent death in a nursing home. Read more