Jun 20, 2020 | 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...
Jun 17, 2020 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
BOUQUET by Lucille Clifton i have gathered my losses into a spray of pain; my parents, my brother, my husband, my innocence all clustered together durable as daisies. now i add you, little love, little flower, who walked unannounced into my life and almost bloomed...
Jun 9, 2020 | Book Media, Current Ned Note, News and Media, Past Notes
New interview with Ned Hayes by the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library, upon the occasion of The Eagle Tree being made available as a talking book by the library for all residents of Washington State. The work of the WTBBL is invaluable to many members of...
Jun 2, 2020 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Poem: what they did yesterday afternoon, by Warsan Shire these are what my prayers look like; dear god i come from two countries one is thirsty the other is on fire both need water. later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole...
Dec 14, 2019 | Current Ned Note, Horror, On Books, On Writing, Past Notes
The holiday season sees a million variations on Charles Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol, yet this marvelous supernatural tale all too often overshadows the ghostly echoes that permeate Dickens’s entire oeuvre. Here’s a brief overview. In John Irving’s book of...
Nov 11, 2019 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, On Books, Past Notes
Read my books at Shakespeare & Co. Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS One year ago, I had the distinct pleasure of visiting perhaps the most famous independent bookstore in the world with my daughter. Shakespeare and Company is the marvelous English-language bookshop in...
