Sep 23, 2022 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Rosh Hashanah — September 25-27, 2022 new year. Ned Hayes Rosh Hashanah comes this year on a day of cool wind, a breathtaking portent of winter taking the world, rude lover tossing the sheets away. in autumn the sadness of all things is greatest for now...
Jun 27, 2022 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, On Books, Past Notes
The best YA books on the autistic experience/outsider experiences. I have some recommendations — published in Shepherd, the Best Books recommendation magazine. We all have important stories to tell. So my mission in life is to tell stories from many different...
Jan 16, 2022 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
The poet Langston Hughes was a great inspiration to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Examples of their connection are expansive. In 1956, King recited Hughes’ poem “Mother to Son” from the pulpit to honor his wife Coretta, who was celebrating her first Mother’s Day. That...
Dec 21, 2021 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you....
Sep 7, 2021 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Rosh Hashanah – Sept 6 – 8, 2021 new year. Ned Hayes Rosh Hashanah comes this year on a day of cool wind, a breathtaking portent of winter taking the world, rude lover tossing the sheets away. in autumn the sadness of all things is greatest for now...
Apr 20, 2021 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
By Terrance Hayes Audio: Read by the author. You can be a bother who dyes his hair Dennis Rodman blue in the face of the man kneeling in blue in the face the music of his wrist- watch your mouth is little more than a door being knocked out of the ring of fire around...
