INTRO/Editor’s Note: I was fortunate to develop as a writer in the city of Chicago in the 60’s and 70’s when newspapers were the voice of the city. Every off-street, neighborhood, bar, ethnic group, character, restaurant, political ward had story potential, and thoughtful editors took you under their wing and saw to it that your [...]
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MARCH Notebook
THIS IS THE MOMENT BEFORE RESURRECTION…when the earth’s bare bones protrude through the dead grasses and blanched leaves…broken and dead branches, stones, birch bark, the ground littered with the broken limbs of trees. Color, if it can be called color at all, muted browns, qualities of gray, shades of yellow in stages of [...]
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Norbert Blei | Photo by Jude Genereaux
The following audio selections are taken from a reading given by Mr. Blei at the Buzz Cafe in Oak Park, Illinois June-July 2000.
Download listen to Norbert Blei | Introduction by Charlie Rossiter
Download listen to Norbert Blei | The Trenchcoat
Download listen to Norbert Blei | Picture The Poem [...]
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Ice Shanty
February 3
Walking the sharp afternoon, an hour or so before sunset, the light already cutting the trees in darkness halfway down the trunks, the face and the ears catching the slight but bitter wind while passing the open fields. Down to the lake, covered now with snow . . . and [...]
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Daniel Anderson
Remembering Door in Photographs
by Norbert Blei
For those who still question whether photography is art, I suggest they visit the Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and dwell on the exhibit “Barbara’s Farm: A Color Photography Memoir,” by Daniel Anderson, January 16 to March 2, 2010.
I doubt anyone can walk past the first few [...]
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You had to live here to know about it. Hear someone mention it in conversation. It had nothing to do with summer vacations in Door County. It was invisible spring, summer, and fall when it faded into the natural landscape as the 17th fairway of the golf course that was set so perfectly in [...]
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BROADSIDE BEAT #6
Chris Halla has been a part of the independent literary publishing scene for 30+years. His poetry, non-fiction, illustrations and photographs have appeared in numerous periodicals, anthologies, chapbooks and books. He’s the publisher of PAGE 5 (to reappear with #13 in 2007); the founding editor and publisher of River Bottom Magazine & Press; the [...]
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Connecting from the Rural World
(That was then, this is now)
When I left the city for life in the rural, back in the late 1960’s, I found myself ‘north’ at almost the tip of a long peninsula, on a dead-end road with two neighbors: an old man who lived alone on a back forty adjacent to [...]
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Greeting the Seasons
from my coop-window
This is my view every day, sometimes nights—a room with a view for all seasons. Each one, a greeting, an invitation to behold.
I can’t wait to look out from my desk every day.
Looking out, looking in. Making something of it…out there…in here…in words. Some words finding their way to [...]
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WINTER RE-VISITED
Road
The road that is ice leads to the water. Which is ice. Leads past the bedroom of the house where the old woman died in her sleep, her spine fused till she was something translucent, cold. Ice itself. Like a similar road which leads past the house where the wife, recently separated, sits alone [...]
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