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The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse: 2021 Special Video Edition #17 – ‘Where Are The Words for This?’

This morning (4/24/2021) a shocking story in the NY Times moved me to create this special edition of Punks The Muse in spoken word. I…

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The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse: 2021 Edition #16 – ‘Able Was I Till I Got Disabilitied’

A few months ago, I developed sciatica. A cortisone injection didn’t help. Nor did physical therapy. At one point I was almost incapable of dressing…

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The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse: 2021 Edition #14 – ‘Touch Our Junk’

On Easter Sunday, I drove to San Francisco.I wanted to have an adventure. I rook my time driving to the city, dawdling along the freeway…

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The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse: 2021 Edition #12 – ‘Mysteria Historium’

As 2020 recedes into memory, I am struck again by the insight that this particular year is a watershed in the history of the world….

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The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse: 2021 Edition #11 – ‘Covid Has Turned Time Around and Upside Down’

It is 5:55 P.M. and today I was supposed to publish a column for The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse. And here I sit. Facing…

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The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse: 2021 Edition #10 – ‘Keep On A-Walking’

It seems like forever since I’ve been for long walks. In the early months of COVID isolation (begun just three days short of a year…

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Quiet Lightning / literary mixtape curated by Tom Pyun & Mary Ann Thomas

Quiet Lightning / literary mixtape curated by Tom Pyun & Mary Ann Thomas

Quiet Lightning presents their 138th show, curated by Tom Pyun & Mary Ann Thomas and held virtually on Monday, February 1, 2021, with readings/performance by (in the…

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The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse: 2021 Edition #4—’Making Something of Myself’

At the Horizon School for Gifted Children it was announced that there would be an art contest. All the students would make something. A picture,…

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The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse: 2021 Edition #1 – “Book Review: ‘That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life’ by Garrison Keillor”

Hello everybody, and hooray! It is 2021. And I will no longer be identifying these columns as “Covid Editions”—now that a new administration will be…

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