Tag: Salon

  • Whisky and Poetry Salon

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    It doesn’t get better than this! In November 2012, Kim Ohanneson & Karolyn Kiisel of Literary Libations, and Johnnie “theScot” Mundell, “ambassador” for Morrison-Bowmore Scotch, inaugurated the Whisky & Poetry Salon at the B Black Penthouse in DTLA (downtown Los Angeles). Our goal has been to trade guests “whisky for their words”, to create an intimate literary and poetic…

  • A Poetry of Names

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    Andrew Leonard’s June 10th column, in Salon, pays tribute to Ian M. Banks, the popular science fiction author who died of cancer on Sunday.  Leonard takes, “a plunge into the poetry of Ian M. Banks’ Culture spaceships” by listing the names of “the awesome, meddlesome, cantankerous and benevolent spaceships” that populate Banks’ novels: Prosthetic Conscience…