Feel The Rhythm

There is nothing quite like the reductive, and rhythmic truth of a poem that speak to you. Prose are a meal but poetry (at its best) is one divine bite-- even if you're reading Whitman and you have to chew for a while. Good on these folks for keeping the soul furnace stoked!

- Tommy Swerdlow

Both writer and resource Eleanor still believes in the nobility of words and of writing as a way of life. And her stuff swings in a uniquely English way. She looks in and she looks out and tells you what she sees.

- Tommy Swerdlow

Deirdre Lewis holds time. She has a little time butterfly net and she catches delicate flying things-- but instead of pressing them under glass she lets them swirl around on the page and in your head.

- Tommy Swerdlow

The real story from the front lines. Direct and full of the tenderness and tragedy that makes up addiction and recovery

- Tommy Swerdlow

Eric Trules is an old comrade from the rag-tag artistic army, and the elevated and elegant one as well. If he's curious about it, it's probably interesting (Now, I may have to go listen the Dylan song Santa fe on one of the bootleg records)

- Tommy Swerdlow

As someone who writes commercial animated movies, I think it's essential that there is a place looking out for the creative, inspired, visionary artists who fly beneath the radar or create their own radar, and even the half-visionaries-- they need a little love and attention too

- Tommy Swerdlow

Because it's fierce and delicate and winged. Hopeful yet aching, it finds enormous life in death

- Tommy Swerdlow

Anna writes with whimsical melancholy and un-fussy open hearted style. Taco trucking whisperings by way of Jascha Heifetz. Who can resist that.

- Tommy Swerdlow

Because I dig salad and someone has to look out for endive, and 'cause I already see a cookbook I want, and because i won't support the Department of Defense

- Tommy Swerdlow