Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

A cinematic poem hits the silver screen

I don’t think I’ve ever come across a poem being converted to film — aside from the major epics like Beowulf or The Odyssey. But Howl — based on this interview — looks like it will blaze some new ground.

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Steve King protests too much

Steve King, the Iowa Republican, is not a happy camper (see TPM). Stephen Colbert is the cause, the Megyn Kelly is King’s enabler. And buried within this clip is something the anti-immigrant right needs to address: The notion that illegals are taking American jobs, as if Americans are clamouring to work the fields and clean toilets.

What Colbert did was unmask the GOP by wearing his mask. It was a stellar performance, when you get down to it.

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  • Certainties and Uncertainties a chapbook by Hank Kalet, will be published in November by Finishing Line Press. it can be ordered here.
  • Suburban Pastoral, a chapbook by Hank Kalet, available here.
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From @rollingstone: "Watch the Trailer for Springsteen’s ‘Darkness’ Doc"

http://www.hbo.com/bin/hboPlayeru.swf?vid=1121171

I mentioned the documentary yesterday, but you can watch it at Rollingstone.com.

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  • Certainties and Uncertainties a chapbook by Hank Kalet, will be published in November by Finishing Line Press. it can be ordered here.
  • Suburban Pastoral, a chapbook by Hank Kalet, available here.
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Rolling Stone gives props to PREX

Rolling Stone lists the Princeton Record Exchange among the top 25 places in the country to find vinyl. And, yes, I wholeheartedly agree.

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  • Certainties and Uncertainties a chapbook by Hank Kalet, will be published in November by Finishing Line Press. it can be ordered here.
  • Suburban Pastoral, a chapbook by Hank Kalet, available here.
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The joke is on Congress — or is it, ‘the joke is Congress’?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640

Stephen Colbert testifies before Congress. In character. And the Republicans just don’t get it, nor do many of the Democrats. Crazy stuff — funny like Tom Toles is funny.

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  • Read poetry at The Subterranean.
  • Certainties and Uncertainties a chapbook by Hank Kalet, will be published in November by Finishing Line Press. it can be ordered here.
  • Suburban Pastoral, a chapbook by Hank Kalet, available here.
Email me at grassroots at comcast dot net.