musing on the muse: 

indexed links to issues

and their related entries on

corey's blog

 

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number one, winter, 2007
introduction to corey's new endeavor

a writing exploration based on a grace paley quote
blog, november 2007
Sometimes I go onto the back porch and draw what I see – plants, flowers, a piece of weathered wood. A familiar, clear, trance overtakes me and my hand’s movements themselves are a kind of seeing.
number two, january, 2008  
make your own art!

 
blog, january, 2008
In 1909, 364,545 pianos were sold in the U.S.; in 1996, the number was 84,346 – including electronic models
number three, february, 2008
chords of deep music

 

blog, february, 2008
When I got out of the water I could still feel the energy of the waves surging inside my body. And I imagined myself as having been reshaped by the water.
number four, march - april, 2008
originality is overrated

 

blog, april,  2008
we who live now have a dizzying abundance of music, literature, performance forms, imagery and story available at the click of the mouse. (a phrase that would have been incomprehensible twenty years ago.)

number five  may, 2008       
paying attention

 

blog, may, 2008
"Joshua Bell dressed as a street musician and played in D.C.’s busy L’Enfant Plaza subway station with an open violin case at his feet during the morning rush."

number six, july, 2008
the gift

blog, july, 2008
the gift, a classic by Lewis Hyde 
reflections about a workshop with Mary Overlie;  object poems are a clue to what deconstruction and post-modernism really mean. 

number seven, september, 2008
the voice is a ladder between worlds

blog, september, 2008
This month, the focus is on voice, one of the richest, most powerful and mysterious areas of mind / body / heart / soul experience that I know of.

number eight, february, 2009
singing makes me happier than worrying

blog, february, 2009
I was overloading  myself with proliferating iterations of the bad news I’d already gotten from the NY Times website earlier in the day.
musings about work and not-work,
what to do in the car, reviews of The VIsitor, (film) Noonday Demon (book), Madeleine Peyroux (singer), and Hilary Kole (singer).

number nine, april - may, 2009

blog, may, 2009
latest post

current issue
number 10, january, 2010

[in addition to links to blog, also has short piece about my new play on The Group Theater]

 

blog, january, 2010
excerpts from memoir-in-progress
Also:
review of A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias,  In 2009, there were some blog postings near the end of the year on the resignation of Van Jones and on Leonard Cohen's San Jose concert that had no corresponding issue of Musing.