Category Archives: Poetry
Tiger’s Twisted Tale a Simple Story
Now that a dozen women have publicly announced their Me too’s, what appears to be a story about big numbers and high complexity may not be complex at all. Shorn of the billion-dollar net worth, the prancing porn stars, the … Continue reading
Filed under Crisis Communication, Poetry, Public Relations
REVENGE POETRY
For me, there’s more poetry in the sung (not just read) lyrics of some seemingly conventional back-country mountain ballads than there is in so much apparently “artistic” poetry. ‘Utah Phillips’ songs are well known to fans of folk, country and … Continue reading
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Baseball: A Love Story
ON THE MOUND never could resist a screwball the guy before me gets it when it’s my turn I pray just let me touch it once Dear God I’ll be good for the rest of my life I never saw … Continue reading
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Crisis Communication in Colombia
If you’re thinking correctly, you learn more than you teach. I’d like to think that’s what I did at the university Externado, in Bogota, Colombia, this past week. I taught a three-day, 12-hour seminar on crisis management and communication to … Continue reading
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From Crisis to Poetry
Lead piece in this week’s New York Review of Books — crisis in the financial markets. a review of a book called A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression. Failure: the father of crisis. … Continue reading
B+ for Obama, A for Lincoln
In the Saturday, January 9, Weekend Wall Street Journal, novelist Jonathan Raban rates the writerly gifts of US presidents. And while Obama gets high marks for the literary excellence of Dream of My Father, Raban says Obama’s no Lincoln. The … Continue reading
Filed under Literary Criticism, On Writing, Poetry, Political Communication, Politics
