John Stoss’ Whatever Passes for Love is Love is a primer for anyone who wonders what it is like to be part of the fabric of New Orleans. The drama unfolds inside the Maple Leaf Bar and into a few pages you begin to imagine you are sitting there on a tottering bar stool, smelling smoke and ash, listening to the droning of those intent on living their couch potato lives as public fixtures. But…
I didn’t realize when I was “let go” from my job of many years that it would be the best gift someone had ever given me. So it was easy for me to tell my friend, Bill Lavender, that his “letting go” would be the best thing that could happen to him. Bill instantly did what Bill should have done a while ago and that is hang his shingle out, or rather dust it off,…
Bill Lavender has a new chapbook out and it cost – $10 – JFC? – what goes on? $10 – you should buy 3 of them. Right now. There are 36 pages, which means it is 27 cents a page, and I’m not sure of the poem count but I can tell you that let’s just say there is a poem every two pages that means you get a poem for 55 cents each. Fifty…