Crossroads: 2020

Why is the legend of Robert Johnson relevant in 2020? After a hard-bitten, chaotic, fractured decade, a decade beset by shadows on all sides, many individuals feel like the deals they've made to survive are with the Devil himself. What the 2020s will be about is anyone's guess. My prophecy involves a 30% improvement on the Teens; more action, more liveliness. Especially beneath the surface, where the media, the government, and all kinds of imposing influences can't see.

Mary Harju, Rue St. Denis, Montreal, Quebec, 2003 (Adam Fieled)

1790 Butler Pike: Another Vision

A Vision: 4th Ave & Hallowell Street in Conshy...

The miracles of photo manipulation: 4th Ave & Hallowell Street in Conshy is one of the optic highlights of the entire Ply-Mar area. The view of the 300 Four Falls Building is stunning. What would Van Gogh, doing a plein air routine, have made of such an optic feast? Well, here ya go...

Hannah Miller

Hannah Miller was an important social presence for the Philly Free School in the mid-Aughts. Hailing from the West Coast, she split her time then between books & politics; and she was devoted to a liberal socio-political vision of Philadelphia that Mike & I approved of. 

Among other new appearances of Hannah online, in & around P.F.S., Poetry Incarnation '05, & the Highwire Gallery, Hannah appears in this Something Solid sonnet from '17, too, which I can be heard reading here.