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Buy The Cynthia Sessions

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Is and isn't. Or, no tart.

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Had a nice birthday up in Vermont. Met these guys & girls on the side of the road... So damn pretty. 

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Send in order to receive. 

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In front of Mt Auburn Cemetery.

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George Jones, we'll miss thee... 

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An anonymous note in Harvard Square. Speaks for most of us... 

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We Love You Too, NY...

This, projected on the Brooklyn Academy of Music tonight: 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness,

only light can do that. 

NY♥B

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Check it, kidz. 

http://www.artovaun.com/p/video.html

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Listen 

with the night falling we are saying thank you

we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings

we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky

and say thank you

we are standing by the water thanking it

smiling by the windows looking out

in our directions 

-W.S. Merwin

[artovaun]

Because the model of getting music out there has so drastically changed, I'm fine with The Cynthia Sessions being on Spotify. But as fans, please remember that it doesn't matter how many times you listen to an artist's songs. The royalties from Spotify and Pandora are a pitiful joke. The only thing to do if you're really a fan is purchase from CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, etc. At least those services actually pay musicians a mostly fair percentage. This article clearly breaks it down with facts and figures.

Check it out, then please go here and pick up a song or the record! Share this point if ya like. Cheers. 

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Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/27/charles-olson-reads-maximus-to-himself-1963/ Courtesy of PennSound

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Click the sun, get the music. 

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Saturday morning, and everything is okay, forever. 

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This is a piece I wrote last week for the Carcanet blog that expands on ideas and questions related to an event last month called Writing Against Memory. It also includes a clip of my reading. Please share if ya like. 

[artovaun]

Boom! Have at it, and please share! And if yer in the Boston area come celebrate with us at the release show this Saturday at Radio in Somerville. Cheers!