November 2025
Nightmare on Mass Ave.
Halloween Bash at CCTV. I read my poetry to open and close and played the night watchman of the graveyard.
Amsterdam Architecture Tours
These are my guides in Amsterdam, who became my friends on the very first tour. They bring that city, Rotterdam, and The Hague to life. Buildings have histories, beauty, color, depth, moods - in a way they are alive.
9/11 Memorial Museum My Poetry
I am now a 9/11 poet. Please visit the museum in NYC, but be prepared for it. https://911memorial.org/profile/2217911
Starry Night for Gloucester 400
Gloucester, MA had it's 400th anniversary, and a poetry reading with the town as its subject. I read my work here.
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, a Review of its Architecture
A modern masterpiece by George Howe and William Lescaze, it is the first International Style skyscraper. I have a poetic and emotional take on it. Ekphastic Review published it. http://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/the-skys-the-limit-thoughts-on-the-philadelphia-savings-fund-society-building-by-stuart-a-kurtz
Halloween Poems
CCTV had a Halloween Bash on October 30. Filmmakers were represented, and to open and close, I read two of my poems. "Units" is my redress of a wrong done to patients. You can read the background info first. "Clearing House" is just a cringe poem. I was very loosely inspired by Robert Browning's My […]
Sheila Lennon Convokes the Meeting of the Tribes
The Providence Journal published my article that I wrote as my Emerson term paper in 2009. It is my jokey take on