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[21 Nov 2011 | 5 Comments]
Edward Field’s Choice – My Best Poems

His first book, “Standup Friend with Me” (Grove press, 1962) won the Lamont Award. It has been through numerous printings. He wrote the narration for the documentary film, “To Be Alive” which played at Johnson’s Wax Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair and won an Academy award. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship. His poems have appeared in many of the leading and underground magazines, as well as in numerous anthologies and textbooks. He has given poetry readings in hundreds of colleges around the country.Once in front of a fireplace in Carlsbad, California, his face glowing from the fire, happy like a small boy’s on Christmas, he told me, “I won’t mind when I die; I’ve been given so much. I have lived such a full life.”

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[12 Jul 2010 | 7 Comments]
Fiction: The Goalie, Part 2

Fiction. Final Installment — The game was Sunday so Saturday was their day for shopping and watching the sights. They walked thru town to the tune of cars honking their way along the street, youths hanging out the windows holding banners or flags of Japan or Argentina. Fans walked wearing their colors – It’s-a-boy blue and white for Argentina and the red rising-sun-on-white for Japan. Many wore the flags of their countries as capes. Faces were painted with the colors of their teams. At a sidewalk café a group of young boys crowded around a table that appeared to belong to some of the Argentine players.

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[23 Jun 2010 | 13 Comments]
The Goalie — New World Cup Fiction

New Fiction by Reggie Johnson set against the backdrop of the World Cup in Toulouse, France …

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Art & Literature, Winners Against The Odds »

[3 Jan 2009 | 39 Comments]
Julie Ann Mills-Testi

Julie Ann has defied the odds to become an accomplished artist and a wonderful wife and mother. There’s nothing confined about artist Julie Ann Mills-Testi. Not her bold mouth brush strokes, her passion for “dancing” through her art or her…

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[21 Dec 2008 | 47 Comments]
Charles Bukowski : Ordinary Madness, Poetry & Drawings.

Recently finished writing screenplay ######BARFLY for the French director Barbet# Schroeder. Wrote the English language titles for Goddard’s recent movie, just out, I forgot the name of it. Marco Ferreri has just completed a movie, TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS, taken from some of my short stories, to be #####released at the Venice Film Festival, #### Ben Gazzara plays Chinaski. MYTHOGRAPH films has just completed a tv movie of my short story, THE KILLERS.

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[19 Dec 2008 | 40 Comments]
Poetry: Alex Scandalios — This Cat Don’t Dance

Literature: When I first started writing about the process of winning, I thought about the lion as the ultimate symbol of the winner. After all, he wasn’t the biggest (i.e. the elephant), he wasn’t the smartest (i.e. the chimpanzee), but he was the undisputed King of the Jungle. How come? Since I couldn’t find a lion to talk to, I settled for my cat, Zorba. After all, like the lion, his cousin, he had royal attitude.

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[3 Dec 2008 | 7 Comments]
Interview: Edward Field – Poetry Is Spilling the Beans

“I don’t know how the hell old you are or anything about you but I am certain you got the stuff: clean, straight writing that knows (or you know) what a poem could be made of. I am much impressed… Thanks to God you’re not precious. And, somehow, I have the impression you won’t be corrupted.”
     – William Carlos Williams to Edward Field
 
Edward Field was born in New York in 1924, grew up in Lynbrook, Long Island. He attended public schools, played cello in the Field Family Trio on the …

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