by Jack Ramey | Dec 3, 2024 | Jack Ramey, Poetry, Uncategorized
Jack Ramey, poet and spoken word artist, brings to life the poems of Keats & Shelley and the revolutionary times in which they lived, with parallels to his own life in the late ‘60s at Kent State. Rome was of special importance to these two poets. Shelley wrote...
by Jack Ramey | Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
If you are, like me, a fan of historical fiction, and are intrigued by the period of Rome’s inevitable slide into the hegemony of barbarian kingdoms, then you ought to have a look at Michael Curtis Ford’s In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex....
by Jack Ramey | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Moby Dick sits on my shelf like a faithful but jilted lover patiently waiting my return. Considered by some to be a literary rite of passage like rounding Cape Horn is to sailors, Melville’s paean to the age of whaling is at best heavy sledding. If you have not time...
by Jack Ramey | May 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
In our recent history, wars have been fought over land and access to oil. Some geopolitical pundits predict that future wars will be fought over water, a commodity necessary to the survival of all species, and a commodity that we take for granted, sand. I was...
by Jack Ramey | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Pigs bloated with conceit Like pink hot air balloons Sprout white wings and Fly high all over Washington D.C. In the Capital, in the Oval Office, even in Lincoln’s bedroom. Swine line up at the hubris trough On the top floor of the golden tower Snorting and...
by Jack Ramey | Apr 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Because you are neither hot nor cold, I shall spit you out of my mouth said Jesus. But what would He make of this new gang in the White House who are hot and cold at the same time? Hot to undue all progress and cold of heart as the coldest stone frozen in ice....
