Merrill Kaitz

Poetry Review: Marcia Karp’s “If By Song” — Verse Passionate and Unruly

This is a volume filled with complex pleasures and pains, assembled with purpose.

Comparisons and guesses about influence aside, poet Richard Hoffman’s voice is individual, original, and strong.

What could have been excursions into monochromatic despair are elevated, through resourceful inventiveness, into exhilarating journeys.

John Taylor introduces readers to an amazing array of sensibilities and life histories in a babel of languages from an atlas of nations.

James Clapham December 4, 2022 at 5:52 pm on Concert Review: The Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Orpheum Theater — Beginning a New PhaseScott, very well written and an accurate description of one of our favorite bands playing today. Thanks for being in...
Leonardi Aray, AIA December 4, 2022 at 1:02 pm on December Short Fuses — Materia CriticaQuality modern architecture is hardly found in the US. These houses are a mere academic exercise by a few GSD...
Justin Freed December 4, 2022 at 12:57 pm on Jazz/Film Review: “An Evening of Jazz Healing” — A Thing of Beauty and SharingThank you, Michael, for your sensitive story. My moments with you after the concert were equally memorable and I send...
F.Norman Vickers December 4, 2022 at 9:51 am on Jazz/Film Review: “An Evening of Jazz Healing” — A Thing of Beauty and SharingLove this review. Inspired writing. Wish I could have been there to see/hear the concert. Keep them coming.
Murray Hall December 3, 2022 at 11:03 pm on Film Review: “The Guilty” — A Danish Thriller, Just as Relentless in EnglishUnsure why a requested review of the Danish original turned out to be mostly about the American remake.