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About Me

Some of my favourite musicians:
Jorane, Jackie Leven, Lambchop, Ani Difranco, Ryan Adams, Calexico, Patricia Barber, Madeleine Peyroux, Bobby Bland, Dinah Washington, Loudon Wainwright III., Tom Waits, Hank Williams III., 16 Horsepower, Rebekka Bakken...

Some of my favourite writers:
David Grossman, Jeanette Winterson, Connie Palmen, Fred Vargas, Jasper Fforde...

Some of my favourite poets:
Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Dylan Thomas, Sarah Kirsch, Else Lasker-SchÃ¼ler, Christine Lavant...

My Interests

Music:

currently running:
dayna kurtz, another black feather
clem snide, end of love
john doe, forever hasn't happened yet

Books:

currently reading:
david mitchell, wolkenatlas
alan isler, klerikale irrtÃ¼mer
ann cleeves, die nacht der raben

My Blog

(lyrics) John Butler Trio

John Butler Trio, Zebra:I can be loud man, I can be silentI could be young or I could be old. I can be a gentleman, I can be violent. I could turn hot man or I can be cold. I could be just like the c...
Posted by Mary Ellen on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:25:00 PST

Denise Levertov/ Langston Hughes

Denise LevertovO Taste and SeeThe world isnot with us enough.O taste and seethe subway Bible poster said,meaning The Lord, meaningif anything all that livesto the imagination's tongue,grief, mercy, l...
Posted by Mary Ellen on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:14:00 PST

Poetry Night /James Tate

Last night I was at the poetry night here in Berlin, which is part of the international literature festival where poets from all around the world read their poems in their mothertongue before differen...
Posted by Mary Ellen on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:46:00 PST