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Jon Corelis
Jon Corelis
Jun 14, 2017 · 3 min read

A note on Howard Hawks’s Man’s Favorite Sport?

Nobody seems to understand this movie.

Howard Hawks’s screwball comedy starring Rock Hudson as a supposed professional expert on sports fishing who actually knows nothing about it, and Paula Prentiss as the woman who helps…

Jon Corelis
Jon Corelis
Jun 14, 2017 · 2 min read

Two poems by Sappho

On What Is Best

Some celebrate the beauty
of knights, or infantry,
or billowing flotillas
at battle on the sea.
Warfare has its glory,
but I place far above
these military splendors
the one thing that you love.

Jon Corelis
Jon Corelis
Jun 14, 2017 · 2 min read

ANNOUNCING THE 2016 ANTONIN ARTAUD COMPOSITION CONTEST

The competition will be divided into three categories of composers:

· CATEGORY 1: Adult Composers Who Have Been Damned By The Ineluctable

· CATEGORY 2: Adult Composers Driven Mad By…

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Jon Corelis
Jon Corelis
Sep 9, 2014 · 2 min read

A memory of Basil Bunting

In the mid 1960s as an undergraduate at The University of Chicago, I noticed a poster on campus advertising a poetry reading by Basil Bunting, who was not widely known in America at that time, but of whom I had heard. The reading was to be held, not in a hall, but in the informal…

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Jon Corelis
Jon Corelis
Jul 11, 2014 · 4 min read

Markos’s Ghost

An appreciation of Markos Vamvakaris, Rebetica Master