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The Grand Confusion of the World

Normally, these are chronicles from the Churchmouse After Hours Coffeehouse. I have woefully failed to share...
Anita Lahey
November 24, 2018
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They'll Never Let Us Off the Stage

Tales from the After Hours Cabaret We promised a cabaret in June for the last After Hours Coffeehouse of the...
Anita Lahey
August 1, 2018
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Darkroom outlines

Rob Winger’s poem, “Liquid Light,” from his 2007 book Muybridge’s Horse, investigates the early photographers’ role...
Anita Lahey
April 18, 2018
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Hands Off My Plums

Chicano poet Alberto Ríos, who served as Arizona’s first poet laureate from 2013-2015, grew up in the U.S. near the...
Anita Lahey
March 21, 2018
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Inside the Sitar’s Buzz, the ‘Dissolving Voice’ of Rain

The trick is finding your own pocket of silence within sound. This is what I was thinking when Stephanie Khoury and...
Anita Lahey
February 15, 2018
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Tick, tock, sssh!

I offer here an aural collage to introduce the upcoming edition of After Hours, the first of 2018: Sound &...
Anita Lahey
January 17, 2018
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Windswept

Part of my own motivation, when we planned a “storm chasing” night for After Hours, was curiosity. Why do people...
Anita Lahey
December 2, 2017
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Wild weather forecast for After Hours tonight!

  Dear Churchmice, In the cultural weather forecast for this evening, watch for a storm or two at sea courtesy of...
Anita Lahey
November 22, 2017
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Glimpses in Passing

  Toronto poet Gwendolyn MacEwen died in 1987. She was exactly the age I am now: 45. Circumstances aside, no one...
Anita Lahey
November 8, 2017
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The Dutch cleanser woman led us to infinity

Last month at Churchmouse After Hours we plodded through deserts, rode ships, dug tunnels and escaped tyranny.   We...
Anita Lahey
October 23, 2017

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