On Tuesday, July 30 five writers and two musicians performed in support for Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who revealed the mass surveillance programs of the National Security Agency, at the Reader’s Quarry Bookstore in Woodstock, NY. The readers: Clark Strand, Carl Watson, James Lasdun, Violet Snow and me. The singers: Paul McMahon, Dan Sofaer. This […]
Under Construction: Urban Removal
LISTEN NOW by Desire Grover *Originally a transcript: www.ghettoprint.com In a great book somewhere there is a proverb written that reads like this: “It takes a fool to tear down a city but a king to build one.” Chester is now a city under construction but not first without some major destruction. So one might […]
East of Tragedy
The intimate portrait of a New Orleans East couple who are in the midst of rebuilding their home and recovering the pieces of a joyful life twenty months after the levees broke. Beatrice Haynes anxiously walked up to the single story home she and her husband Milton, both 48, have owned in New Orleans East […]