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Building Benedetto

From the November 2016 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY MARK ARI     Click here to read.          

Then and Now

Some stuff I did then, and stuff I do now.

How Jacksonville’s Buddling Literary Scene May Have Started on UNF Soil

How Jacksonville’s budding literary scene may have started on UNF soil

“The Biggest Loser” by Cyrano Moon

Cyrano is as close to me as my own skin.   The Biggest Loser  

In Whatever Work A Man Is (FOLIO WEEKLY)

In Whatever World A Man Is, by Tim Gilmore

Drowned

It broke above the surface of the water and floated there. There was no extension of hip. No gluteal clench. No lift of long white legs and curled feet that might then plunge into the spine’s arch, pushing a perfect head above the chop. No hands to rub salt from eyes. No eyes. No hair […]

In Search of the Holy Grail

My piece on Robert Johnson and the search for that holy of holies, his lost guitar.  Cover story in August 2015 Acoustic Guitar Magazine. Buy the issue here: Acoustic guitar  

Working title: Brilliantly Disguised Insoluble Problems

I’ve started putting a new album together. I don’t know how long it will take. I don’t know what will be on it. I don’t know how many other musicians I’ll use, or if it will mostly just be me. I just know it will be my own songs. I want to feel it’s me, […]

Rounding Home

April 9th marked 27 years Jan and I have been married. A bit more than half a year before that, I was on the island of Crete. That time, I’d been away from the states better than a year. Jan, who had been in school in Paris, joined me in Spain and we lived and […]

Postcard Poems and Prose, “Cities”

      Cities