Quietude here shouldn’t be taken as inactivity on the writing front. The latest issue of Meat for Tea: The Valley Review (Vol. 6, Issue 4) carries an essay of mine titled “Top Ten.” I also have a poem in the current Midwestern Gothic (Issue 8). In addition, writing of mine is forthcoming soon in The Avalon Literary Review, African American Review, Cream City Review, Concho River Review and Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture.
Posts Tagged ‘Cream City Review’
Forthcoming and New
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged African American Review, Avalon Literary Review, Concho River Review, Cream City Review, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Meat for Tea, Midwestern Gothic, Top Ten on January 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Hobsbawm
Posted in Essays, tagged Cream City Review, Eric Hobsbawm, Essays, Jazz festivals, Labor Day, Obituaries Uncommon People, Open Letters Monthly, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire, The Age of Extremes, The Age of Revolution, The Guardian on October 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Eric Hobsbawm’s obituaries invariably mention the historian’s “Age of…” series — The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875, The Age of Empire: 1874-1914 and The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991. Those books do make an impressive set.
It was his essays, however, that I found myself returning to, having recalled Hobsbawm insightfully remarking on subjects I also chose to address. Open Letters Monthly, for instance, published (under a title I never liked) something I wrote about jazz festivals in which I cite Hobsbawm’s 1994 essay “Jazz Comes to Europe.” A piece I composed concerning Labor Day (forthcoming in Cream City Review) is informed by another essay collected in Hobsbawm’s Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz.
The Guardian reports that Hobsbawm submitted a manuscript to his publisher a few months before his death. It was a collection of essays.
May Day, Labor Day & Me
Posted in Essays, tagged Cream City Review, Labor Day, Labor Day Ironies, May Day, Wisconsin on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Word came from Wisconsin in time (or close enough anyway) for the international workers’ holiday that Cream City Review will be publishing my “Labor Day Ironies” in a forthcoming special “Labor” issue. My essay surveys the origins of May Day and Labor Day and some attendant peculiarities, not the least of which is that Labor Day became a holiday only after a disastrous failure of a strike. The president who signed off on it did so only to mollify workers anger by the harsh tactics used to squash the labor action. A Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one, if you ask me, but some fascinating history all the same.
