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5CT July / August 2015

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C harles Simic is the second poet laureate from New Hampshire, loves New York and writes like a dream. The writer Richard Kreitner has mapped out some ~~cool~~ interesting American road trips for your summer. The scene was Cambridge University – the year – 1965 – the characters – two leading intellectuals – the debate – who pays for the American Dream? Plus, a live performance to make your day. And Baltimore (West Baltimore to be exact) — as literary as any city in America — has given us another great one. “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” – James Baldwin

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Essays & Poems by Charles Simic

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author photo by Beowulf Sheehan

5CT June 2015

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G reetings from Torridon, on the west coast of Scotland. The big empty, as my friend Jamie Jauncey calls it. This issue circles back to (recently featured) Sherman Alexie, who just floored some Dark Angels. Torridon is geologically and visually stunning. Voice is central to Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, Herbie Hancock’s chant. A periodic table of storytelling? Yes. And where to store all those wonders you find online? “My great-great uncle and Long Wolf understood that to be fully human means dwelling not just on the planet but in nature. That’s where our hearts beat strongest.” Jamie Jauncey

Dark Angels, Moniack Mhor 2015

5CT March 2015

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A brilliant new podcast steps up. Drones are now making haunting films. These cave paintings sent an art critic into paroxyms of joy. David Carr’s course syllabus is a trove. And, a buzzy new entry into the music streaming world. “And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses.” ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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When writers speak | A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment

Sherman Alexie and Jess Walter have launched a podcast, “A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment.” (Anthony Pidgeon/Redferns, Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

5CT January 2015

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O ne fine writer says a pen might change the world. The Guardian celebrates the birthday of a fine jazz label. An English filmmaker films an America that’s a little off — and a little other. In tech, there is a nice clean way to write on your iPhone or Mac and sync your work to everywhere. And still another publisher is kicking out stories in a gorgeous mode. Happy 2015, I wish you wisdom and prosperity. “Do not read,” said Gustave Flaubert, “as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” Make sure to scroll down to the end. A small treat awaits.

The world’s most famous jazz label – celebrated for its striking use of design as much as for its groundbreaking recordings – is 75 this year. John Fordham tells the story of Blue Note through a selection of its famous album covers. - The Guardian

5CT september 2014

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Well that was fascinating, Scotland. A great drama was made all the better by my friend, novelist-blogger-archangel-copywriter-musician and lover of independence, Jamie Jauncey. Jamie blogs over at A Few Kind Words. He’s a founder at Dark Angels Writers and is a writer of the first rank. His passionate yes dispatches and thoughtful posts are beautiful. Sign up, you’ll be better for it. This issue is packed…

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The River Tay, Scotland

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Paris, France

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” ~ Robert Frank

Pears, Seatte, Wa

These prints are five-by-five inches and matted on acid-free rag board.

photo of a lake on the Olympic Peninsula

Lake Ozette, Olympic Peninsula Wa

"To collect photographs is to collect the world." ~ Susan Sontag

Sailboat, Puget Sound

Space Needle, Seattle, Wa

The bass player

Cappuccino

Dream

Thomas Merton

"Now let us frankly face the fact that our culture is one which is geared in many ways to help us evade any need to face this inner, silent self. We live in a state of constant semi-attention to the sound of voices, music, traffic, or the generalized noise of what goes on around us all the time. This keeps us immersed in a flood of racket and words, a diffuse medium in which our consciousness is half diluted: we are not quite ‘thinking,’ not fully present and not entirely absent; not fully withdrawn, yet not completely available. It cannot be said that we are really participating in anything and we may, in fact, be half conscious of our alienation and resentment…We just float along in the general noise…”

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1. Essays & Poems by Charles Simic

1. When writers speak | A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment

PURCHASE A PRINT

Writing Shed, Whidbey Island

Thomas Merton

Gift

Writing workshops

5CT RUNS ON CORTADO’S

photographs from one year

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Essays & Poems by Charles Simic

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When writers speak | A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment