Author Archives: marcbeaudin
Hallelujah Revisited
I remember vividly the first time I heard Leonard Cohen. It was in my room at Squatemala, an anarchist compound of Victorian mansions and carriage houses built by long-dead lumber barons. Over the decades, it had gone feral with broken … Continue reading
Posted in music review, Writing
Tagged Coltrane, Leonard Cohen, music, music reviews, Saginaw
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Hundred Highways Tour #48, 49: M-13, M-84 to Bemo’s Bar
No tour would be complete without a visit to my birthplace of Bay City, Michigan, and a reading at Bemo’s, my favorite Bay City bar (now that the Old Bar is long gone). The show was fantastic thanks in large … Continue reading
Posted in Hundred Highways, Writing
Tagged bay city, Bemo's, Coltrane, highways, jazz, northwoods improvisers, Poetry
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Hundred Highways Tour #44 – 47: M-25, I-75, I-23, M-14 to Bookbound
When I was in college at a small school in a mid-Michigan cornfield, my best friend was at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I was the poor kid who wanted to transfer there, but knew I could never … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Arbor, bookbound, crazy wisdom, independent bookstores, Monica Rico, Poetry, Saginaw, Saginistas, shaman drum, thomas hardy
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Marc Beaudin 