A piano blues by Stan Raines
You call me up at nine
Ask me about a bottle of wine
You’re gonna serve to your guests
But I’m not invited.
So I crashed the party anyway
Then I find I don’t have much to say
‘Bout many things beyond whether
You and me are ever gonna be together.
And you know that I love you.
And [...]
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Tags: Literature · Poetry · Politics · art · music · solipsismo
From Gene’s Notebook
…in a local club, two women and eight men sit around a table, drinking a lot of beer, all college people, some with Greek fraternity letters on caps; they’re part of the academic world, or were very recently. Friends all.
Then, in come two scruffy men, and one woman; they draw stares from the [...]
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Tags: Brownsville · Literature · Personal · The Valley · The Wall · art · comedy · daily living · myth and mythology
Eugene Novogrodsky has proposed, and the “Well, sure!” part of us has concurred, that we plan and execute in the fall at an acceptable middle ground venue a meeting of NunnaYerBizness Today contributors with the business of reading our work. We think this a fine idea and would like to hear from the contributors themselves. [...]
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Tags: Poetry · The Valley · Welcome
The San Benito Cultural Heritage Coalition
is pleased to announce
Dr. Manuel Peña
and his new book
Where the Ox Does Not Plow
Please join us in a special reading/book-signing & reception:
Wednesday, May 21, 7:00 P.M. at the Narciso Martínez Cultural Arts Center
225 E. Stenger, San Benito, Texas
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Tags: Education · History · Personal · San Benito · The Valley · art