Thoughts on the Late Leaves of Winter
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog There is no life in them. I have a pile of these dead leaves in my garden, accumulated over the winter, dashed […]
Godspeed David Lynch
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog It was a Thursday night, and I had been learning a monologue in preparation for an audition tape I was to […]
Doing Things of Utter Irrelevance.
By Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The pessimists’s pessimist would say from the get-go: “all you do is utterly irrelevant. Think on the world and your life within […]
The Poetry of Arthur Rimbaud
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Arthur Rimbaud turned his back on poetry at the age of 20, or around 1875. The rest of his life, 17 years, […]
A Look At Matsuo Basho
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The master of the Haiku expresses poetic qualities that charge his words with unmistakable clarity. Clarity is the medium for Basho’s perception […]
Marcus Aurelius and Wordsworth
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Up! Up! my Friend, and quit your books; Or surely you’ll grow double (from ‘The Tables Turned’, William Wordsworth) But cast away […]
One After the Truth
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog I was sitting at a café when I got to talking with a woman who happened to sit across from me. I […]
Of Time and Dreams
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog I had a dream that I was assaulted by three men. One of them granted that “I had had enough”. I didn’t […]
A Conversation With Yury Kharchenko in Berlin
by Carl Kruse The Carl Kruse Blog invites all to a chat between Russian-German Artist Yury Kharchenko and art historian Dr. Eckhart Gillen this coming Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 at […]
Two Beautiful Dictionaries
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Between 1870 and the turn of the 20th century, two books were written that despite their distance of creation (the Atlantic separated […]
O’Shaughnessy: An Ode
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Arthur O’Shaughnessy left one good poem behind. Many other Victorian poets left a few good poems behind and they are welcomed in […]