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  • Reading: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” by August Wilson

    Last night, I finished reading August Wilson’s play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” about an ill-fated blues recording session in 1927. Unlike in “Fences” or “The…

  • Reading: “The Piano Lesson” by August Wilson

    Last weekend, I finished reading “The Piano Lesson,” a two-act play by August Wilson, which I am reading for a brief independent study course on…

  • Conversion, Part Four: Iconoclast

    I have been wondering this week how I will actually manage as a Catholic, if I become one. I am by nature an iconoclast who…

  • Poetry on TV?

    I was curious earlier this week and went into one of the functions of our DVR service to look for TV programs about poetry. The…