Sep 17, 2020 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Rosh Hashanah – Sept 18 thru Sept 20 2020 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...
Sep 10, 2020 | Current Ned Note, On Books, On Writing, Past Notes
I loved reading about Vladimir Nabakov’s writing process… intriguing to see inside the master’s work habits and see how he acted like a magpie and a chaotic creative coming closer and closer to a final story. This process of collection and collation...
Aug 27, 2020 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Theater
“This low-rent Lear raging on his Twitter-heath has proven that the phrase malignant buffoon is not an oxymoron.” — George F. Will, The Washington Post The perfectly satirical story of our age, King Donald is the shockingly prescient story of our time, a...
Aug 23, 2020 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Reviews
New Book Review by Dragonfly.Eco: an exploration of eco-fiction The Eagle Tree by Ned Hayes (Little A, 2016) Young adult contemporary fiction Review by Kimberly Christensen To say that fourteen-year-old March Wong loves trees is an understatement. He climbs multiple...
Aug 3, 2020 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
Andrew Grace Placing your foot in a bucket of darkness, three miles to home: ostrich farm, oat field pimpled with buttonweed, Rayleigh Scattering dissolved by mist above. Two hours you spent rivering a womb-humid artery for floodwater to pass through & now passage...
Jun 29, 2020 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
“This song came knocking about a week ago and I had to open the door and let it in. What can I say about what’s been happening, what has happened, and what is continuing to happen, in this country, in the world? There’s too many words and none, all at once. So I...