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On not finishing Denise Levertov’s “Collected Poems” on her 100th birthday today

A Basel German Rhyming Dictionary in a bookstore window

From abstractions and gerund phrases to images and conjugated verbs in my poetry and songwriting course

Compositions by Geri Allen and Wayne Shorter at a concert by William Evans, Roberto Koch, and Jorge Rossy

Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, and Brian Blade at Atlantis in Basel

Listening to Carly Bley last weekend and learning today that she died yesterday (1936-2023)