by Warren Gaston | Sep 27, 2018
The second trio is the Hiromi – The Trio Project led by the Japanese firecracker pianist/keyboardist Hiromi Uehara. Playing with her is the Sriracha hot percussionist Simon Philips and the brilliantly steady bass guitarist Anthony Jackson. Hiromi wrings...
by Warren Gaston | Sep 23, 2018
Late the other night, too early to sleep but not too early to be sleepy I GOOGLED Wayne Shorter and unwired a web world of jazz. Shorter’s blowy throaty saxophone to be sure, but nothing short of much more. The ‘more’ included two groups new to me;...
by Warren Gaston | Sep 17, 2018
What Poems Get Done Poems are the exploration of the common ground of human experience with the common ground of a language. Everyone has experiences throughout the day. Everyone uses language throughout the day. What most of us don’t do is look at our experiences...
by Warren Gaston | Sep 15, 2018
I am reading a book on the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) in an attempt to rouse up my language. He knew things I want to know and expressed things I want to say. With immense vision and skill he used metal, plaster, paint, and clay to create gaunt...
by Warren Gaston | Sep 4, 2018
Alive in Language To write poetry is to be alive in language. To be alive in language means to live in awe of language, our most fundamental human accomplishment. To be alive in language is to be fascinated by language. Sight and sound, the seeing and hearing of...
by Warren Gaston | Aug 31, 2018
Whatever happened to rhyme? Poems can no longer be defined as writing that rhymes. Since the 19th century with poet pioneers Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, rhyming has gone out of vogue. Nowadays few do. Most modern poems do not, at least not rhymes stuck neatly at...
