Watch Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS on Netflix even if you’ve seen it 100 times.
Nothing like a flock of homicidal birds on an island to prepare for Halloween. Hitchcock was a genius. The filmmaking is so advanced for 1963. […]
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee A book to reread as an adult.
I am going back to so many books I’ve read when I was young such as A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and now To Kill […]
RUN FROM THE MADNESS, a heavy metal album with lyrics by Caprice Garvin
Caprice Garvin is a poet-friend who wrote the lyrics for this band, a pioneering thing to do for a woman. There are hardly any women […]
THIS IS HAPPINESS by Niall Williams
Set in 1958 in a small, sleepy town in Dublin that doesn’t even have electricity yet, 17-year-old Noe Crowe, the narrator, makes the drollest observations […]
Defenestration just published my poem, ME IN THAT CHIFFON DRESS, 1964
The illustration is cuckoo, but the poem is (I hope) worth a read. https://www.defenestrationmag.net/2024/08/me-in-that-pink-chiffon-dress-1964-by-rochelle-jewell-shapiro/