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Gary Lindorff: Reflection on my poem "Seeing Red", posted on 3/17/24
The 60s was my holocaust. It burned up my childhood to a cinder. But like the protagonist in The Giver, at the end of the 60s, my spirit was rescued by the color red. . |
 John Hawkins: Jesus's Serious Last Doubts for Sax (poem) An Easter sonnet for Easter, Jwsus plays the blues. It's gettin hard to be a savior of a world that don't want none. |
 Thomas Farrell: Thomas J. Farrell on His Most Memorable Year (REVIEW ESSAY) In this wide-ranging and associative and digressive and lengthy essay, I commemorate my memorable year of living in Manhattan and teaching English at City College/CUNY in 1975-1976. I focus of four fine people I knew when I was there: (1) Mina P. Shaughnessy (1924-1978); (2) Theodore L. Gross (1931-2022); (3) Edward Quinn (1932-2012); and (4) Sarah D'Eloia (1943-1990). |
 John Hawkins: The Water Sonnet It's world water day. And I feel like flipping a cheerleadr high in the sky! Okay, it's a day or so lter. I forgot. Imagine being a water creature and forgetting water day, f*ck. |
 Gary Lindorff: The exuberant invitation and a reflection Everything that is ours is yours. / Be sure to bring your Prozac and your Zantac and your kayak |
 John Hawkins: Sonnet: Morbidly Obese Wa A sonnet on Sakman Rusgdie in preparation for a review of his memoir on his recent stabbing by a fatwa guy, |
 Gary Lindorff: This war This war has messes with my immune system / (I think this war it has shortened my life) / This war is like a strong wind blowing through my brain |
 Gary Lindorff: Seeing red I remember/The day my youth ended / When my brother asked me / Have you thought about the draft? |
 Mike Rivage-Seul: My Homilist's Writer's Block in the Face of Genocide SUNDAY REFLECTION: I'm sorry. I find it impossible to comment on "God's word" that has been invoked so cynically to justify the sadistic slaughter of far more than 31,200 innocents, more than half of them children and their mothers 12  |
 John Hawkins: St. Paddy's Day 2024 A celebration of all things ancient Boston St. Paddy days of yore. Go Broons! |
 Gary Lindorff: Greg Braden on the Psalm 83 War: What about those Biblical prophecies and coded predictions? Do the stupidest, shallowest, most self-centered or delusional, narrow minded, sickest people make the most history? |
 Philip Kraske: AI Killed My Run for President -- the Sad Story It didn't matter that I'm a political genius; the AI was against me, and that was all that mattered. |
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Thomas Farrell: Pope Francis on His Life and Times (REVIEW ESSAY)
In Pope Francis' new 2024 book Life: My Story Through History, with the Italian journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona, translated from the Italian by Aubrey Botsford (HarperOne/ HarperCollins), the first Jesuit pope discusses his life and times in what the American Jesuit literary scholar Walter J. Ong referred to as a "talked book." I highlight here what the pope says about corruption, because Trump exemplifies such corruption. |
 John Hawkins: Remembering Mose Allison (poem) Poem inspired by a streaming view of The Fabulous Baker Boys. Mose Allsion is missed. |
 Gary Lindorff: Magical protection followed by a brief reflection Such power objects are not fake./ Especially if they call you to them, |
 Cathy Pagano: America is Having an Identity Crisis: Right on Time. America is going through an identity crisis. Will we be Christian nationalist fascists or will we choose to be Americans who believe in freedom and equality? This identity crisis is written in the sky as well as within each of us. |
 John Hawkins: Abolish Slavery Now Anglela Y. Davis has a new book about an old continuing theme. Who said slavery was gone? Buy a bridge? |
 Mike Rivage-Seul: Netanyahu's Bible Is Not about God SUNDAY REFLECTION: How can anyone with an ounce of humanity or possessed of the most elementary moral compass believe in a God who commands complete genocides including women, the elderly, children, infants, cattle, and sheep? 7 |
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Werner Lange: Oscar's Best Picture and Best Mensch
critical review of Oppenheimer, the biopic which undeservedly netted 13 Oscar nominations and its pro-nuke contrast to Einstein and the Bomb; includes review of the heroic efforts of W.E.B. Du Bois to abolish nuclear weapons and the support he got from Leonard Bernstein/Maestro. |
 John Hawkins: Film Review: Poor Things Review of the multi Oscar-nominated film, Poor Things. Great fun. I highly recommend. |
 John Hawkins: I Can't Seem To Forget You, You're Windsong Stays On My Mind (sonnet) Sonnet that wants to recall the days when. It's okay. I like it. But it's ephemeral. Dust to dust. You know the scene. |
 John Hawkins: Film Review #2: Killers of the Flower Moon This is second review of Killers of the Flower Moon. This one emphasizes the Catholic angle. |
 Gary Lindorff: In the studio You played brilliantly while I read./ Your cello creaked and moaned and broke/Into sobs and ripped cloth |
Gary Lindorff: This I saw in a dream
The dog is only being polite out of respect for the man's ego./ He is a patient dog. / The dog is describing the man's behavior to him./ He isn't making anything up. |
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Thomas Farrell: Pope Francis, David French, and Walter Ong on Gender Differences (REVIEW ESSAY) Pope Francis (born in 1936; elected pope in 2013), David French (born in 1969; J.D., Harvard University, 1994), and Walter Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) call attention to gender differences. |
 John Hawkins: Film Review: The Old Oak (2023) Review of Ken Loach's new film, The Old Oak. I enjoyed it and tell you why. |
 John Hawkins: The Omerta Kookaburra in Me Ol' Gum Tree (poem) Here's a quick witt poem to burn off some steam. Bout it. |
 Philip Kraske: I Hear RFK Jr. Is Running for President Down the back stretch of the election campaign, it's going to be RFK Jr. versus Trump, with Prez Joe panting far behind. |
 John Hawkins: Dirge (poem) Microplastics, like love, are here to stay, fated to be part of who we are. Shiny plastic people, as REM used to sing. |
Thomas Farrell: Thomas J. Farrell on Drafting His Own Obituary This admittedly short article rounds off two of my earlier OEN articles: (1) "Thomas J. Farrell on Walter J. Ong, S.J." (dated November 7, 2023); and (2) "Thomas J. Farrell on Thomas J. Farrell" (dated November 17, 2023). The present article provides certain further information that was not included in either of those two previous OEN articles. 1 |
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