Welcome to Jersey Writers, home of Uncle Walt, Doc Williams, Queen Latifah, Muldoon at Princeton, Roth in Newark, Joe Weil in Elizabeth, and even that poet Bruce down the shore. Join me on a journey that explores the images and words of our garden of a state where all sorts of juxtaposed stuff grows. Let's own it and celebrate it, Jersey girls and guys. Walt Whitman would have.
To be aboslutely honest and corny, I was influenced to start this blog by the movie Julie and Julia (though I was not influenced by the same film to debone a duck or make an aspic.) What a great project Julie set for herself!
Some guidelines:
- This is a blog about New Jersey and its cultural outreach. Let's stay on topic.
- Let's not be literary snobs. Where's the fun in that? Martha Stewart is from Nutley and her cookie book is amazing. Check out those champagne glasses Lou Costello's "Who's on First?" is a classic looped 24/7 at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Bud and Lou Everyone from New Jersey gets to play here.
- Do you want me to connect to your site or link? Please let me know.
- Let's keep sarcasm at a minimum. This is not going to be a dark place on the internet. I am not happy about the comments that follow newspaper articles online these days. Mean-spirited, anonymous, cowardly junk.
- Send me stuff that you think is cool or important. No stuff about work or politics.
Here are today's Jersey Words:
" At the last second, poetry saves you,
Undoing the knots of the dastardly villian
Who has tied you up to the tracks of your life..."
... from Villian by Joe Weil in The Plumber's Apprentice
Keep writing,
Maureen
PS: The picture at the head of this blog was taken by me in Branch Brook Park, Newark, New Jersey. In the foreground is a lion designed by Fredrick Law Olmstead, who also created Central Park in NYC and the lions in front of the public library and 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.. In the background is the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, center of life for the Archdiocese of Newark.
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