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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

New arrangement & composition of 5 of my CD tracks

at myspace:

HERE

the page includes the poem/fusion/fablish thing published in Segue with music just composed by one of my brilliant collaborators, Mad Hatters'Review music editor Benjamin Rush Miller, aka Ben Miller. the music and audio are fantastic, as are the others. i hope to offer my revamped CD for sale during the AWP Conference, particularly at the KGB reading on February 1st.

SCIENCE AND THE CANDIDATES

Almost all of the major challenges we will face as a nation in this new century, from the environment, national security and economic competitiveness to energy strategies, have a scientific or technological basis. Can a president who is not comfortable thinking about science hope to lead instead of follow? Earlier Republican debates underscored this problem. In May, when candidates were asked if they believed in the theory of evolution, three candidates said no. In the next debate Mike Huckabee explained that he was running for president of the U.S., not writing the curriculum for an eighth-grade science book, and therefore the issue was unimportant.

SCIENCE AND THE CANDIDATES
By Lawrence M. Krauss