Caught live at his favorite Saturday morning haunt, The Au Bon Pain in Davis Square (home of the Bagel Bards), Doug Holder reaches back into his cavernous memory vaults to a time in his younger days when he would feed his body and nurture his poet’s soul eating breakfast at Guild’s.
Tales Of The Book Part Four
Timothy Gager Reviews ‘Boys and Girls Together’
‘Boys and Girls Together’ is the Fifth Rock Trick in “How To Train A Rock” by Paul Steven Stone, available on Amazon.com.
Tales Of The Book Part Three
ANOTHER WORD ABOUT LOVE
“So when something from the outside touches you and seems to bring happiness…?” you ask playfully. “Something like a songbird?”
“You must learn to let it sing, and be grateful for what you are given. As soon as you try to capture it, or own it, or demand more, it’s like catching the songbird in your hand. How easily you can squeeze the life from a songbird when you try to capture its song.”
“How sad,” you say, your voice filling with regret. “To kill the very thing you love by holding it too tightly.”
“Yes, it is sad,” I agree. “Very sad. The moral of the story is to look to yourself for your happiness, not to others. Which means looking to yourself—and yourself alone—for whatever love you need. Learn that lesson or spend the rest of your days squeezing the life from each songbird that flies into your world.”
From “The Songbird And Me”, one of many ‘Short Insights and Fiction Flights’ to be found in “How To Train A Rock” by Paul Steven Stone, available on Amazon.com. For more info, check out HowtoTrainARock.com or PaulStevenStone.com.
Tales Of The Book Part Two
A WORD ABOUT LOVE
Love, like rain, is no less pure
because it falls upon one gender or another.
It’s not same-sex marriages
that deny the essential nature of love,
but those who would tell the rain
where it can and cannot fall.
From “Love Is A Many Gendered Thing”, one of fifty Short Insights and Fiction Flights to be found in “How To Train A Rock”, by Paul Steven Stone. Available on Amazon.com.
A Thorn Among Two Roses
PAUL STEVEN STONE JOINS KIM ADRIAN AND DIANE LOCKWARD FOR CAMBRIDGE LITERARY EVE, JUNE 5, 2OO9
Author Paul Steven Stone will be reading from his work on Friday, June 5th, at the Dire Reader Series, offered at the Out Of The Blue art gallery, 106 Prospect Ave., Cambridge, MA. Joined by fiction writer Kim Adrian and poet Diane Lockward, Stone will be reading from “Or So It Seems”, his innovative, comic romp of a novel, as well as from “How To Train A Rock” (just released!), his collection of short insights and fiction flights. Both books are published by Blind Elephant Press and available for purchase on Amazon.com.