37 SECONDS

 
37 SECONDS is a Japanese Netflix movie well worth watching. Written and directed by first time feature director, Hikari, it stars a novice actress Mei Kayama who suffers from cerebral palsy. It is a hauntingly poignant story and Kayama gives an amazingly brave performance. All the performances are terrific. Check it out. 

BEST POEM WRITTEN ON JANUARY 6TH 2021 ABOUT THE EVENTS OF JANUARY 6TH 2021 (BY TERENCE WINCH)

 

(C) TERENCE WINCH 2021

AND THIS

 

ACK

There's a lot to bemoan about the rioting of TRAITORS AND TERRORISTS today inspired by THEIR TRAITOR-AND-TERRORIST MOB BOSS "leader"—especially the death that occurred—but what pissed off this radical activist who ascended the steps of The Capitol at an anti-Vietnam War protest where over ten thousand protestors were arrested (the charges later dropped) after serving four years in the military was the kid glove treatment from the cops of these mostly white TRAITORS AND TERRORISTS plus the presence of one of them in The Capitol carrying the "confederate" flag, symbol of TRAITORS AND TERRORISTS.

SOME OF THE BOOKS FROM 2020 THAT I LOVED

I know I'm missing some but here's a quick list of some books from friends that came out in 2020 and I loved:

SEEING-EYE BOY by Terence Winch (a totally entertaining and enlightening young adult novel set in a pre-expressway 1950s mostly Irish Bronx neighborhood that anybody can enjoy)

MAIN STREET: How A City's Heart Connects Us All by Mindy Thompson Fullilove M.D. (the subtitle says it all about this personal and professional take on reclaiming Main Streets by a brilliant psychiatrist and social historian—with some quotes from me)

AFTERSHOCKS: A Memoir by Nadia Owusu (A knockout must read multi-cultural story of and by one of our best living writers)

LOVE POEM TO MPTF by Harry E. Northup (a collection of poems chronicling a poet/actor's loss of his and his poet wife Holly Prado's LA apartment in a fire ending up at The Motion Picture Television Fund home where Harry then suffered the loss of Holly, a profound and moving poetic and spiritual document of endurance, resilience, and transcendence)

GREAT BALLS OF DOUBT: Poems And Prose Poems by Mark Terrill (terrific new collection by a favorite poet of mine who has written some of the greatest prose poems of my, or any, generation) 

IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS by Greg Masters (lots of great poetic takes on a poet's life mostly in downtown East Village Manhattan in the last decades of the 20th century)

PIVOT and ASIDES by Geoffrey Young (two of the poet/artist's limited edition short books of poems that are marvels of construction and insight and humor)

and among the dozens of poetry books I was sent this year that I'm still reading and digging:

SOMETHING SOMETHING MORNING by Chris MASON

NONE OF US by Ted Greenwald and Kyle Schlesinger

THE COURSE by Ted Greenwald & Charles North

A THOUSAND WORDS AND OTHERS by George Tysh

DERRIDA'S IN/VOICE by Chris Tysh

[please forgive my leaving out any I'm forgetting, just an exercise in old guy's spontaneous list making] 

MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE 2021 SAINT MARK'S POETRY PROJECT NEW YEAR'S DAY MARATHON

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FAVORITE NEW YEAR MEME