Jean Valentine (photo: Tyler Flynn Dorholt) What I know about change, I’ve learned from the line break. Never ran this hard through the valley /…
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Tag: in memoriam
Everybody’s Breaking Somebody’s Heart
Charley Pride. Photo: Joseph Llanes. Courtesy of 2911 Media. Several summers ago, I took my high school best friend, who was going through a divorce…
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Eating Oatmeal With Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray as a young man. Photo provided by the author in 2016. The Scottish writer Alasdair Gray died on December 29th, at the age…
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Nick Tosches in a Trench Coat
Nick Tosches, music writer and biographer, died at the age of sixty-nine on Sunday. I spent an awful lot of time around Nick Tosches in…
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Farewell to Dr. John, Wherever You Is Now
Dr. John at the 2007 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (photo: Derek Bridges) There was a press junket, and at the last minute someone…
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When Mary Oliver Signed Books
I didn’t know Mary Oliver as well as I would have liked, though our poetry paths crossed a few times. We were introduced more than…
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Francine du Plessix Gray and Sorrel Soup
By her own account, writing wasn’t easy for Francine du Plessix Gray, who died last Sunday at the age of eighty-eight. As she told Regina…
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Passing Mary Oliver at Dawn
Mary Oliver (Photo © Mariana Cook/Penguin Press) I don’t know what to say about Mary Oliver’s death except that she was a great and beloved poet,…
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