I reveived the new issue of Beat Scene magazine from the UK, and my essay "Charles Bukowski never came to Sweden"
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I received my copy of the anthology Employees Only, from Poet Plant Press in Florida.
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Ana & Dave Christy publishes a monthly poetry broadside, Cokefishing in Alpha Beat Soup,
and in their December 2009 issue they have one of my poems: Dave Liebman at Fasching.
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The New Zeeland poetry magazine Valley Micropress published two of my poems
in their December issue, Fellini Roma and My First Poem. Click and read the last one.
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My painting of Miles Davis made it to the cover of the new Nerve Cowboy Magazine,
Issue 28. Check it out!
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The anthology AGGRESSIVEBEHAVIOUR ANTHOLOGY2 is out, also this time a cooperation
between Bottle of Smoke Press in the States and Compulsive Press in Canada.
Owen Roberts is the designer of these wonderful, handmade books - only made in
100 copies. I have made all the illustrations and I have many poems in this book.
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A new review of The Loulaki Bar up at Doug Holder's blog,
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene, very nice.
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My favorite poetry magazine in New Zeeland, Valley Micropress, published two of my poems
in their September issue. Lyle Lovett at Tranan and Jerry Jeff Walker at Mosebacke.
Click and read the last one, you could say I made a fool of myself but I'm not so sure.
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A really nice review of my book, The Loulaki Bar. This guy likes my writing.
Check out the Rattlesnake Review.
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I have a new book out: The Loulaki Bar, from Miskwabic Press in Michigan.
Read about it HERE. A book with poetry and art. And 33 special copies with a signed water color.
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Here's my Dylan poem from the latest issue of Nerve Cowboy.
I call it Talking Tribeca #1.
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The fine magazine Nerve Cowboy is out with a new issue: #27, spring 2009. I have two poems in there,
one about Muhammad Ali and one about Bob Dylan, sort of.
Read the Ali poem here, it's called my wife shook hands with Muhammad Ali.
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Happy Birthday Sam Charters!!
80 years today.Here.
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The new issue of Chiron Review is out, #87, summer 2009. Good stuff from Dave Newman, Ed Galing, Michael Kriesel
and many others.I have a poem in this issue, read it here, it's called All my jobs.
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Jim Camp has produced Volta No.2, a broadside collection. Check out my contribution.
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I made another soccer painting, based on a Swedish player.
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Today I made a new watercolor, plenty of colors, check it out.
It's called Jazz Duo.
I've been slow with my site for a while. Yes. I'm back. Many things
to report soon. Check back. Use the RSS feed, it works fine.
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Check out the blog and website poetry dispatch; Norbert Blei presents
"henry denander:6 poems on writing, writers, fatherhood,
marriage, jazz, jazz musicians, fame & much more".
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In Los Angeles, Phil Spector has been convicted of second-degree murder and this case
has taken it's time - already in 2005 I wrote this poem about Spector.
It was published in my book In The News, a small letterpressed book from BOSP
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I came home late after a dinner at Leonidas, I had walked all the way down the hill. When I looked
at the computer I found this great little review on Kathy Kieth's blog Medusa's Kitchen.
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I'm on Hydra for two weeks, enjoying the quiet life and the strong sun. I was checking the news last night and saw some soft news about Maradona and Pelé, reminding me about this tanaka I wrote some time ago. I may have to write about the new events as well but not this time.
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A tribute to the poet Dave Church has been published, check it out.
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I wrote another tanaka, commenting on a theory that
one of my friends had. Sometimes other people's
thoughts are even stranger than my own.
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Here's a drawing of a cat we know here in Stockholm.
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The Champ R.I.P.
Ingemar Johansson died yesterday, after fighting Alzheimer's for over ten years.
He was 76 years old. Here's a poem for Ingo.
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I have made a water color portrait of the poet Ronald Baatz.
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A friend of mine went a long way to see Neil Young in concert.
It was good but Neil was in a bad mood because no one in
the audience ever got up to dance. The audience, the average age
probably 45, all sat. I wrote a tanaka about this, or actually four
takes on a Neil Young tanaka.
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I just found an old drawing from Blue Note in New York.
Check it out, sometimes jazz can be exhausting.
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I wrote another tanaka this morning, after my visit to my friends studio the other day.
I called it bronze tanaka. I did an illustration as well, so it's clear what I mean...
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I wrote some tanakas this morning. If you have not been following this site, tanaka is a new form of poetry
that I have invented. It's fairly complicated but soon everyone will be into this, I think.
Anyway, I wrote a new thing called Financial Tanaka #1, and you can read it on my tanaka page.
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Happy New Year! Xronia Polla, as we say here in Greece.
I have a poet friend on another continent, he is very productive and
writes poetry almost every day.
For me that is troublesome, I rarely
write poetry these days and I try to find the faults in the daily
writing method.
And I wrote this tanaka. It's a new poetry form that I have invented. One of my inventions...
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Suddenly William is a teenager, he turned 13 today.
Here is a new family painting.
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Following that poem of mine that was translated into French,
here's a little story from twenty years ago in Paris, called
Une coincidence.
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The Belgian poetry magazine Microbe has translated two of my poems into French,
they are published in their November-December issue, Number 50.
In 2004 Microbe translated my poem How to draw like Picasso and now they publish a
translation of How to write a poem. What will come next?
Brush up your French here: Comment écrire un poème.
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I have made the cover painting and eight illustrations for the new
issue of Fight These Bastards, a Gerald Locklin issue.
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I have added a link to my page at LastFM. On this page.
My music player is connected to the internet and, for over a year, every
song I've played has been registrered on LastFM. There you can now
find statistics of the 25 000 songs I've played; the most frequent artists etc.
Most is jazz and there may be some stuff to explore for a jazz lover.
I am a geek, and I am proud of it!
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Here's a new portrait, I have called it Lady who can sing the blues.
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I have added an art gallery with a collection
of new paintings, check it out here .
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Here's a new painting from the world of soccer.
It's called Inter vs Milan.
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Brush up your Greek:
The Greek singer Stelios Kazantzidis, who died in 2001, was the biggest
Greek traditional singer, a fantastic voice and a strong charisma.
When he died I wrote a poem about him and over the years I've
had many comments from Greece, since probably there's not much
about Kazantzidis in English on the web. Here is a blog about the singer
they just contacted me and wanted to know the story behind my poem.
And here is another blog that has translated my poem into Greek.
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I'm back from two weeks in Greece, painted a lot of water colors.
The one on the front page is new, as well as this one.
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The soccer season is intense, tonight's another Champions League session.
Here's a new soccer painting .
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Here's a new painting, it's called Zinkensdamm and
this is where I live in Stockholm.
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Hey, just wanted to inform you that my small press Kamini Press (named after the village on
Hydra Island) has just published Gerald Locklin's "The Plot of Il Trovatore and other poems".
Charles Bukowski said: "I like Gerald Locklin. I like his stuff. He swings from his heels...he's open
and he calls the shots. He's also funny and tells the truth."
The limited edition with my artwork is sold out. Go to www.kaminipress.com and
check it all out. Buy a book, I'm sure you'll like it. The books are handmade. I know, because I'm
the one who made them.
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Watching the Olympics I remembered a poem I wrote four years ago when
a good friend of mine told me what disciplines he liked the best.
This poem is for Sam and its called Synchronized Diving.
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I have made a new water color painting I call Francesco's Scooner.Check it out.
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t.k. splake, the poet from Calumet, presents his poetry tree .
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If you can read Swedish and want to see what I wrote after reading three wonderful books by Haruki Murakami,
then click and go to My Swedish Blog.
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I made a series of water colors based on some of the nice looking
Greek fish you see here, here's a fresh one.
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Here's a new water color painting of the large house down in the Kamini harbour.
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Our good friends Dag and Unni have been visiting us here on Hydra,
they stayed down in Kamini in the room that is mentioned in this poem.
I wrote this many years ago but it is still valid, although the room now has
airconditioning so you can have your windows closed at night...
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The new issue of poetry magazine Nerve Cowboy is out, Spring 2008, Number 25.
I have made the painting that's on the cover, check it out here .
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Hey, life on Hydra is slow, lots of sleep is needed to get into the rhythm here,
and getting used to the heat. I will slowly get my website back in action.
I had three poems in Chiron Review, here's one: Sapporo (The Sun Bear Concerts) .
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 OK, I've been too busy with different things, mainly trying to keep some
sort of tempo with all the tax declarations I need to do....but let me tell
about something completely different. I am proud to present a new book
in my small Kamini Press. "The Poet Sees His Family Sleeping" by Samuel Charters.
32 pages of unpublished poems.Check it out at the Kamini Press website.
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I had ten very quiet days on Hydra Island last month, not many people around.
Very nice, actually.
A lot of cats though and I made a douzen more cat paintings. Check them out
here in my art gallery: greek cats, I added them to the first cat batch.
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I'm back from ten days in Greece, going through mail and working
on tax declarations. Here's a new water color, what do you think?
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Today I received my small bronze sculptures back from the foundry in Athens.
My friend Michael Lawrence had made twenty sculptures that were to be cast and
he gave me some of the remaining wax and a ten minute lecture on how to make a sculpture
and I had a go the next morning, before he was leaving for Athens.This was three months ago and
today I had them back.
Here are three of my sculptures, check them out on the artwork page.
If you click on the photo they get larger and you can click to get to the next one.
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The incredible Mineshaft Magazine is out, in some way each new issue is just getting
better. I think it's unique in it's way of blending art, cartoon drawings, poetry and interesting
writing from all over the world. As someone said on their letters page, I just want each issue
to last as long as possible, I read a little each time.
A beautiful Robert Crumb front cover and
Christoph Mueller's fantastic "Angel of Sin" drawing on
the back
cover!! And the life of famous Beat
underground poet, Diane Di Prima, drawn and written by
Mary Fleener
(with guest Harvey Pekar)!
Poetry by Diane Di Prima! "Pat &
Corky" fiction by J.R. Helton, Zippy the Pinhead and how Bill Griffith
got his start! New artwork by Christoph Mueller (with guest Joe
Coleman) and William Crook, Jr.!
Jay Lynch & Ed Piskor's story
about Lynch and Crumb going to visit Chester Gould! Poetry and art
by Henry Denander.
Yeah, you saw that? Robert Crumb and Henry Denander! Jeeebus!
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Check out my water color A Bronze Prince.
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I'm in Greece for 10 days, looking after the olives & watching the orange tree starting to bloom.
Maybe I'll put some whitewash on the house and try to get the carpenter to fix the door to the house.
It's very quiet here, the Greek Easter isn't until late next month and that's when the island comes to life again.
My friend Michael will have his exhibition at the Melina Mercouri Hall next week, with sculptures and paintings,
and since he has to be there every day we will set up a small art studio in the hall and do some water colors on
of the large tables. That's the plan anyway.
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I am using Library Thing to make a list of my books, especially small press
titles but in the end it will be a list of rare books and my
Bukowski books and stuff. This is geek territory...
Anyway, I just added my book number 1.000 and I chose Leonard Cohen's
"The Spice-Box of Earth" because it's a really wonderful book and maybe one
of the first poetry books I ever bought.
And here's an old Leonard Cohen poem as well.
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The new issue of the internet magazine Turntable & Blue Light is up today,
The Valentine issue. I have one page with poetry and paintings;
check out the mag for lots of interesting stuff. Edited and designed by Arielle Guy.
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Ladies & Gentlemen: Sam Rivers. The master!
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Here is a new coloured sketch . Good or bad, or both?
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A mixed media artwork, made one late night in 1985. Read the story.
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 This is a large water color painting showing the small harbor
at Hydra Island, in those days when the old wooden freighter
arrived every Wednesday.
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A water color from the summer of 2006, the painting is
called Woman in the port. What do you say?
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Look at a water color painting I did in August last year,
Man in the port, I call it.
It has to be called something.
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Kronia Pola! as they say in Greece, Happy New Year, I just came back from
two weks in Greece, harvesting olives...
I have some new paintings and stuff to add here but first a blurb for the
next issue of one of my favorite magazines, MINESHAFT. The February issue
will feature (in no particular order...Ha!): Henry Denander, Robert Crumb,
Diane di Prima, Aaron Lange, Bill Griffith....etc etc.
Check them out at their website or at myspace, order a copy, you will like it!
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Gerald Locklin has a new book of poetry out from Liquid Paper Press,
and my water color painting was made specially for the cover of this book.
Check out the chapbook here.
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I am working with www.LibraryThing.com for building up a catalogue of my books,
mainly my collection of books by Charles Bukowski and the like. Also all my small press poetry
books as well as signed books and first editions. On my page for otherstuff I will test this.
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The website Hydra Direct just published my little story on olive harvesting.
Maybe soon I can start my own brand of cured olives. I will test them after
Christmas, if they are good maybe it's time to start designing a label for
my glass jars...
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Doug Holder has reviewed the Kamini Press chap Some Natural Things,
by Glenn W. Cooper. "Highly recommended" he writes. Read the
full review at Doug Holder's blog.
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I have added Carol Tyler and her site Bloomerland to my links page, under Poets/Artists.
I read about her book Late Bloomer in the Mineshaft Magazine. I love her comics;
her stories and drawings and strips.
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Here's a new painting, a water color portrait of Arthur Rimbaud.
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Here's a water color sketch of a Swedish Soccer player, I know this will interest the
whole world...read about the heroes.
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Here is my drawing of Charles Bukowski. It was used as an illustration in Gerald Locklin's
recent chapbook from Bottle of Smoke Press.
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Kamini Press has published their first book, check the Kamini Press blog or the
website www.kaminipress.com (with PayPal buttons), it's a chapbook with poems by
Glenn W. Cooper. I've done the cover painting.
Buy a copy, support the Small Press.
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This poem Off to Hollywood I wrote in 2003 and I upload it today as a tribute to my
friend Lars Yngve Johansson. He is now in Hollywood, writing screenplays and
making contacts, just as he planned. And maybe just like in the poem...
If you know Swedish, there's a cartoon drawing in my Swedish blog.
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I am happy to hear from Jim Camp and that his press is back and up and running again.
Look at the Volta No.1 he did. His new website is up at www.synaesthesia.net , check it out.
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Here's a portrait of my very good friend Sam Charters .
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Here is as painting from 2003, it's a view from Hydra, based on some paintings I saw at an exhibition there.
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A new Swedish poem is added to my Swedish Blog, you can now click on a link in the menu to the left and the blog will open here.
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Since I have just picked and cured a batch of black olives, I remembered an old poem I wrote about buying the tree, which is five years old now. Read the poem if you are interested in gardening and bringing up an olive tree...
On my blog at MySpace (www.myspace.com/henrydenander) I wrote this the other day, about my olive harvest:
I am somewhat pleased with myself after preparing the six litres of
olives that I picked yesterday,
spending a couple of hours up on a
ladder under the large olive tree. Some investigation showed that
the
best method for these kind of olives is the salt and water mix, no
vinegar and no slicing,
just mix ten liters of water with one kilo of
salt. Ghikas in the grocery store donated an old
15-litre plastic olive
jar and it is now cleaned and almost full of the black gold.
After two months they should be ready to taste. The ones I made last
October are actually
very good now, I took them out and cleaned them,
added some olive oil and salt - my friend Sam thought
they were better
than the ones we bought here in the store! How about that?
Maybe
I can start selling home-made olives, down in the port. I've always
wondered why no one is
selling local product, like olives, orange
marmelade, lemon marmelade or the candied fruit; people
around here on
Hydra do all these things but only for themselves or the family and
friends.
Maybe it's a complicated thing with selling food, you may need
licenses and stuff. Or payments.
The olives in my tree got
larger and fuller the higher up I climbed on the ladder, I saw the
fruit
high up in the tree towards the sun, they looked like small
plums. My ladder is old though, and it felt a bit shaky.
I
talked to my friend Michael about him holding the steps while I harvest
the top olives but he's
on antibiotics still, with a chest infection,
and he also said I should get someone not so heavy to
climb the ladder
instead. Hmmm...
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Here is a drawing of a Greek musician. Maybe he's playing bouzouki. It's not a guitar, that's for sure!
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Gary Aposhian R.I.P (1962-2007)
I never met Gary although we were in contact through letters and email all these years, I was buying books from his Free Thought Press Publications and later from 12 Gauge Press. He proposed I should do the illustrations for Brad Hamlin's Devil Music chap, after seeing some doodles I made in a letter I sent him. He had many projects going, one morning he emailed me and said that one of his heroes, the Los Angeles Jazz radio disc jockey Chuck Niles had just died and Gary had written a poem about him that he wanted to print and send out to his friends the next day - and could I do a portrait of Chuck Niles by return. And the next day he had the broadside printed and distributed to friends and radio stations in LA. Not everything happened that fast with Gary, he had his personal problems and I was not the only one waiting for chaps or replies. We got to know each other well during these years and I will miss him. When he was at his best he was an amazing publisher and poet.
Read Bradley Mason Hamlin's obit here.
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Here's a long poem I wrote a couple of years ago, after we visited this musem for the first time. If you walk 100 meters from our house here on Hydra, take left at Four Corners and walk by Leonard Cohen's house (check the wires outside..), there's just a three minute walk down some steps to the Koundouriotis Mansion. It's niiiice.
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We went to the Lazaros Konudouriotis mansion yesterday, it's a 200-year old house that's now a beautiful museum. I did a water color sketch of the building.
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Today is a day for harvesting oranges here on Hydra. Check out the poster for the incredible Rebetiko concert we went to the other night. Click to enlarge.
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I updated my blog with a poem in Swedish. Brush up your Swedish.
I am on Hydra together with my old friend Sam
Charters. This week there’s been a conference here on Rebetiko, the Greek
traditional music. The conference ended with a concert at the Douskos taverna and
we went there and had three hours of uninterrupted Rebetiko music, performed by
six wonderful musicians. Just magic, neither of us had heard Greek traditional music
this good.
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Here's a painting I did maybe 15 years ago, a view over Lundagatan in Stockholm.
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This poem, Old and new songs, was published in my first book in 2003. Here in Sweden it's "STIM's bedömningskommité" that decides if your song is stolen from soneone else. Just so you know...
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La Poésie de Mr. Blue has been published by Microbe in Belgium, it's the French translation of my short story "The poetry of Mr. Blue".
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Bokmagasinet (maybe the best bookshop in Stockholm) now has copies of THE CLIFFS:Soundings.
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A new issue of THE CLIFFS: Soundings
from Vertin Press in Calumet Michigan, from the editors Ed Gray and
t.k. splake. I have been chosen as the featured artist for this summer
2007 edition and I have 17 watercolors reproduced in this finely
produced magazine.
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I have made all the illustrations for Gerald Locklin's new chapbook the restaurant godot. The book is just out from Bottle of Smoke Press. Click and read more.
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Valley Micropress in New Zealand just published a poem I wrote about when I lived in Australia. Read the poem, it's called I found an old notebook from 1975 when I lived in Melbourne, Australia .
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The Swedish edition of my short story about Mr. Blue is now available. "Mr Blue och hans dikter", can be ordered in Sweden from Kamini Press or bought at Bokmagasinet in Stockholm. Or ordered from the publisher Bottle of Smoke Press in the US.
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My poem bookstore graveyard has been published in SPRING, THE JOURNAL OF THE E.E. CUMMINGS SOCIETY, a wonderful 164 page magazine. Read about the society here.
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My painting of Muhammad Ali is used on the cover of the new chap from the poet Glenn Cooper in Australia. The book is just published by Blind Dog Press in Australia but distributed in other parts of the world by Swedish new publisher Kamini Press. This is a a great chap, 21 narrative poems from the Australian poetry champ.
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