Orange man, orange man — where do you go?To the podium downtown, where spotlights lay him low. Orange man, orange man — what do you do?I stack my name in steel and glass, sell certainty like glue. Orange man, orange man — why do we live?To fill the seats, to hold the roar — to … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.5 (a more political narrative😉😉)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny SugermanÂ
Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman’s No One Here Gets Out Alive is less a dispassionate life-history than a rite of remembrance: a fevered, piecemeal canonization of Jim Morrison that helped turn an already mythic rock singer into a modern Prometheus of American pop-culture. First published in 1980, the book occupies a peculiar position between popular … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny SugermanÂ
Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.4
Orange man, orange man — where do you go?I go with my girl, to dinner and a show. Orange man, orange man — what work do you do?I am a cobbler by trade: I mend every shoe. Orange man, orange man — why do we live?To share what we have — love and laughter to … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.4
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Penland Book of Ceramics: Master Classes in Ceramic Techniques edited by Deborah Morgenthal and Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott
The Penland Book of Ceramics reads like a field diary kept at the intersection of craft pedagogy and artistic confession. Edited by Deborah Morgenthal and Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott and assembled from the teaching tradition of the Penland School of Crafts, this handsome volume (Lark Books, 2003) aims not simply to catalogue techniques but to … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Penland Book of Ceramics: Master Classes in Ceramic Techniques edited by Deborah Morgenthal and Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott
Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.3
Orange man, orange man — where do you go?I slip into the evening like a warmed coin, to dinner, to the picture house where reels are slow. Orange man, orange man — what do you do?I stitch small salvations at my bench: a tongue of leather, a stubborn nail, the map of a sole. Orange … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Utopia by Thomas More
Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) reads like a paradox that learned its art of contradiction. On the surface it is a crisp, economical travel narrative — the voice of Raphael Hythloday recounting an island society — but beneath that surface it is a moral mirror and a rhetorical trap. The author fashions a work that is … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Utopia by Thomas More
Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.2
Orange man — where do you go at dusk?To the chip shop, to the cinema with my woman. Orange man — what do you mend?Leather at the bench: heel, stitch, the hollow. Orange man — why do we stay alive?To pass the good things on: bread, a half-smile, a repaired sole. Orange man — how … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Slab-Built Ceramics by Coll Minogue
Coll Minogue’s Slab-Built Ceramics presents itself — and persuades — as more than a how-to manual: it is a meditation on process, an argument about the expressive possibilities lodged in a single, humble slab of clay. Read as a craft text, it is pedagogically rigorous; read as an artist’s tract, it is provocatively poetic. Read … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Slab-Built Ceramics by Coll Minogue
Revisionist Poetry – Life of a Smoke, v.4
I am smoke. Born at the ember’s edge — pyrolysis of leaf and fibre —a thin life of rising carbon and heat.I press against warm darkness, a pocket of soot and vapour,a particulate world cradled in solid matter. Light finds me. Lips close like twin petals; a clap, a seal.A spark cracks — combustion — … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Life of a Smoke, v.4
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne’s The House at Pooh Corner (1928) stands as one of the most quietly profound works in children’s literature—a book that, under the gentle veil of whimsy, reflects deeply on friendship, identity, and the fleeting nature of childhood. Though often shelved as a companion to Winnie-the-Pooh, it is, in many ways, the more … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
The New Renaissance Mindset 