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
My Artpiece in Attleboro Museum of Art
The show in June, 2025 was "Reign, Rain, Rein," and it featured my encaustic wax collage/painting called "Old South." It is about the bloodshed of The Civil War and the passage of the Antebellum South. You can see the blood in the tropical aerophytes (mistakenly called "Spanish Moss.")
Experimentally Ill, The Movie
Here I am at Open Screen at The Coolidge Corner Theatre with the cast of "Experimentally Ill: The Movie." It's every first Tuesday of the month (except in summer.) There was some weird creative stuff there.
Deb Weiss Play
I was in 2024 at A Slice of Life New Plays Festival - 20th Anniversary with friends and playwrights Deb and Jim Weiss. There was a voting competition.
Getting Us Through the Night
Getting Us Through the Night Review of Cracks of Light Nabokov once said, “Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” Under Covid, we have all seen a lot of darkness. The idea is to make the most of the crack. And poet, Sterling Warner does that in his […]
The Resurrection of Judy Rhines
Here I am (striped shirt) with my friend and teacher, Peter Littlefield, and artist, Gabrielle Barzaghi, at “The Resurrection of Judy Rhines” in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It’s last performances will be this weekend, August 30 - 31. Try to see this excellent and perplexing work!