poem-like-things – michael jarmer

We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Talk About Poetry: An Apology and a Defense

In my ambitious bid to listen to every record in my collection from A to Z and to write a poem about each artist in the process, I am learning something new about poetry. First of all, writing a “good” poem “in response to a thing,” especially on the fly, is difficult or impossible toContinue reading “We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Talk About Poetry: An Apology and a Defense”

#622: B is for Black Country, New Road

I It’s 2021, pandemic winding down, civilization returning somewhat to normal, and two artists, right next to each other in the alphabet, breakout from jolly ol’ England, two experimental and unconventionalyoung bands bringing togethera regular smorgasbord of influencesfrom the progressive and art rockmovements of the last decades. The first of these, this band called BlackContinue reading “#622: B is for Black Country, New Road”