by David | May 20, 2013 | reading & writing
After last month’s haiku spree, I was intrigued to discover – via BoingBoing – the Chaterism, a form of constrained poetry thusly defined: Snowball (also called a Chaterism): A poem in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one...
by David | May 8, 2013 | photo, reading & writing, transportation
palimpsest |ˈpalimpˌsest| noun a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. • something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form:...
by David | Apr 30, 2013 | reading & writing
Out like an iamb National poetry month Is ending today
by David | Apr 26, 2013 | economics, reading & writing, transportation, urbanism
The ever-alert Boston Business Journal reports that Barbara’s Bestsellers has closed but might get a new lease on life – literally – in a smaller space in another part of the station. The 417 square foot book stall appears to have gone to the dark (roast)...
by David | Apr 18, 2013 | reading & writing
Print out some verse, it’s Poem in Your Pocket Day Poem: one beat or two?
by David | Apr 10, 2013 | eating, reading & writing, urbanism
The 2013 Food Truck Season is in full swing at City Hall Frozen Wind Tunnel Plaza. Yesterday I visited the new (to me) Compliments Food Truck, which is billed (or blackboarded) as “New to Boston” “Kinda Earthy Crunchy” and “Run on Veggie...
