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• John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, March 9, 1622. June 20, 2024. "The Lord Chamberlain mentioned was, of course, William Herbert, 3^rd Earl of Pembroke,..."
• John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, October 27, 1621. June 18, 2024. "...he hath his pension from a I00 marks increased to 200^li per annum...".
• Earl of Pembroke to the Earl Of  Shrewsbury. October 16, 1604. February 13, 2023. "Susan de Vere, daughter of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was also in attendance at Court. In early December of 1603, she was one of a small number of English ladies invited by the French ambassador to an ambassadorial dinner."
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to King James; January 30, 1603 [1604 N.S.]. March 14, 2021. “Seeing that it has pleased your Majesty of your most gracious inclination to Justice & right to restore me to be keeper of your game as well in your forest of Waltham…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil; June 16, 1603. February 21, 2021. “I am answered, by his letter, that he cannot do the same, unless he be warranted by six of the Council’s hands,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil; June 12, 1603. February 14, 2021. “The cause is right, the king Just, and I do not doubt but your Lordships both my honorable friends,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil; May 7, 1603. February 7, 2021. “…truth is subject to no prescription, for truth is truth though never so old, and time cannot make that false which was once true.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil; April 25, 27, 1603. March 8, 2021. “For by reason of my infirmity, I cannot come among you so often as I wish. And by reason my house is not so near,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil; March 22, 1602 [1601 O.S.] January 30, 2021. “…my desire is to know her Majesty’s pleasure touching my desire of her patent,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil, November 22, 1601. January 17, 2021.  “I shall desire you to hold me for excused, since ever since the receipt thereof by reason of my sickness I have not been able to write.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil, October 7, 1601.  January 10, 2021. “My very good Brother, If my health had been to my mind I would have been before this at the Court,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil, May 11, 1601. December 28, 2020. “I vow to god to acknowledge to you in all faith, kindness and love, and in whatsoever I may stand yow in stead which according to my estate now is little”.
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil, [May 1601]. December 13, 2020. “my own disposition to yourself, which has been rooted by long and many familiarities of a more youthful time”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil, [July 1600]. December 6, 2020. “after so many trials made in vain, & so many opportunities escaped, the effects of fair words, or fruits of golden promises.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil. February 2, 1600. December 20, 2020. “we be knit near in alliance so hereafter more nearer by good and friendly offices.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Queen Elizabeth; June 1599. July 10, 2021. “And to make me more wonder, my wife coming from the court, told me that your Majesty said to her you heard not that there was any money gotten.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Robert Cecil; June 1599. July 4, 2021. “Now it moves me not a little, that I should be thus set a work for her Majesty’s service, and when with my great labor I have effected it, to be thus mocked…”

• Sir Robert Cecil to Michael Hicks, 1598 (Undated). November 28, 2022. “When Burghley died, the question of the wardship of his three granddaughters, the daughters of Lord Oxford, who had deserted their mother and now had married again, became a burning question.”

• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Thomas Egerton (?), likely 1598. July 18,2021. “And for so much as They have wrought so cunningly that before ever I could have knowledge thereof they had gotten her Majesty’s hand,…”

• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, September 8, 1597. November 22, 2020. “…me thinks his offers very honorable, his desires very reasonable. Again being a thing agreeable to your lordship’s fatherly care and love to my daughter.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Robert Cecil, January 11, 1597. November 29, 2020. “But his shifts and knaveries are so gross and palpable, that doubting to bring his parts and jugglings  to light, he does address his petition  against  her that is utterly ignorant of the cause.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Robert Cecil, September 6, 1596. November 15, 2020. “The Earl of Derby should have set his hand and seal to this copy, as he had done to yours, but his promises, being but delays and shifts, in the mean season,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, March 14, 1596. June 27, 2021. “And whereas I received a most favorable message from your Lordship by your servant Hicks…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Robert Cecil, October 21, 1595. November 11, 2020. “…the forest of Waltham, & the park of Havering, my evidences show me a certain right to the same,…”.
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Robert Cecil, October 20, 1595. October 23, 2020. “I was a suitor to her Majesty, for her favor thus far, that my right which I did not doubt, to the forest of Waltham & park of Havering…”.
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; August 7, 1595. June 19, 2021. “Also so long as it shall be held a firm opinion, that the Lord of Buckhurst shall have the suit upon easier conditions then myself it is hard for me to make it so commodious as indeed otherwise I may.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; June 15, 1595. June 12, 2021. “Now my Lord I leave to your judgment whether ten thousand pound a year be better to the Queen then four.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; June 14, 1595. June 7, 2021. “For I would be loath that her Majesty being drawn on with frivolous devises, should lose some eight or ten thousand pound this year, and after be said that it was through my vain motions,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; June 13, 1595. May 31, 2021. “I would be glad, that Alderman Catcher might have warrant to join with Middleton, for my own satisfaction,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; June 7, 1595. May 23, 2021. “For the sending down of Middleton alone, a man wholly disposed to that party against which I inform, I do not think myself indifferently dealt withal,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Robert Cecil, April 24, 1595. October 11, 2020. “I do understand by my daughter how good an uncle she finds you, and how ready to befriend her,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; April 17, 1595. May 16, 2021. “I assure your Lordship I neither showed him or any other, any letter of yours.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; April 13, 1595. May 10, 2021. “But if it will please her Majesty to nominate me, for the Preemption and transportation, and be content to give me time,…”
• Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; April 9, 1595. May 5, 2021. “I was the first that offered 3000l to her majesty when as there was but a 1000 marks proffered by others,…”
• Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; April 1, 1595. April 27, 2021. “Thus most earnestly desiring your Lordship’s favour, I do crave her Majesty’s resolution,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; March 28, 1595. April 10, 2021. “…the great quantity of Tins whereof her Majesty is yearly deceived in her Custom.”
• Earl of Oxford to Michael Hicks; March 28, 1595. April 17, 2021. “I am not able nor fit to look into that place, being yet no better recovered, if it shall please his Lordship at his best leisure to take so much pains, as to look into my daughter Derby’s house or mine,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; March 25, 1595. April 4, 2021. “I confess that he was the first that dealt in it to cozen her Majesty but not to profit her,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; March 23, 1595. [1594 O.S.] March 28, 2021. “Thus it appears that 8000l or thereabouts, buys up the first coinage,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; March 20, 1595. March 21, 2021. “if her Majesty any kind of way can be persuaded to disburse forth her money. For whereas that for which was demanded 40tie or 30tie thousand pounds,…”
• John Lyly to Queen Elizabeth, 1595: a Letter of Petition. July 18, 2022. “In 1583, De Vere bought the distressed lease for the Blackfriars theater.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, July 7, 1594. October 4, 2020. “But hoping that the same disposition still remains, towards the justness of my cause,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, October 25, 1593. September 28, 2020. “But I found that so displeasing unto her, that in place of receiving that ordinary favor, which is of course granted to the meanest subject, I was browbeaten, and had many bitter speeches given me.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, circa June 30, 1591. January 3, 2021. “As I desired of your Lordship by my letters when first this trouble began to break out,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, May 18, 1591. September 19, 2020. “So shall my children be provided for, myself at length settled in quiet, and I hope your lordship contented, remaining no cause for you to think me an evil father,…” 
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, September 8, 1590. September 13, 2020. “But since he has taken a violent course, and refuses reasonable offers, I have sent Hampton…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, before August 5, 1590. September 5, 2020. “…otherwise there is not any will deal with me for the same, nor for any part thereof,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, before June 25, 1586. August 22, 2020. “…yet am I one that hath long besieged a fort and not able to compass the end or reap the fruit of his travail, being forced to levy his siege for want of ammunition.”
• Thomas Doyley to the Earl Of Leicester, November 24, 1585. August 18, 2020. “…enemies goods were found in our ship, namely, the Earl of Oxfords, which they proved by letters of my Lord Treasurers to him, wherein he wrote of her Majesties grante of the commanding of horsemen, which letter one of the Earl of Oxfords chamber brought over in our boate, with his monie, apparel, wine, and venison, etc.”
• Letter: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, before October 30, 1584. August 28, 2020. “And I think very strange that your Lordship should enter into that course towards me, whereby I must learn that I knew not before, both of your opinion and good will towards me.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, 1583. August 16, 2020. “I count my greatest stay, and by your lordship’s friendly usage and sticking by me in this time wherein I am hedged in with so many enemies”.
• Baron Burghley to Christopher Hatton, March 12, 1582/3. December 9, 2023. “...it pleaseth Him to afflict my Lord of Oxford in this sort, who hath, I confess, forgotten his duty to God.”
• Letter: John Lyly to Baron Burghley,  July 1582. May 28, 2023. “... my most humble suit therefore unto your L[ordship]. is that my accusations be not smothered...”
• Lord Burghley to Sir Christopher Hatton. July 13, 1581. September 23, 2020. “Yet yesterdaye being advertised of your good and honorable dealing with her Majestie, in the case of my daughter of Oxford, I would not suffer my thankes to growe above one daye olde,…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, July 1581. July 8, 2020. “…but the world is so cunning, as of a shadow they can make a substance, and of likelihood a truth.”
• George North to William Herle, January 3, 1581 [N.S.]. January 18, 2024. “...were examined at my Lord Chancellor's, (Monsieur Le Comte de O[xford] (as I hear) being their accuser)...”
• Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Christopher Hatton, August 28, 1579. September 9, 2020. “As for the matter depending betwene the Earle of Oxford and me, certaynly, Sir, howsoever I might have forgiven hym, I should never have forgiven myself,…”
• Letters: Baron Burghley to Earl of Oxford, January 1, 1577. February 6, 2022. “I cannot, my Lord, see this old year passed with such disgraces,…”
• Sir Francis Walsingham to John Sturmius, Oct. 27, 1576. May 06, 2018. “Of special interest should be the reference to one “Lewin”.  He is William Lewin, a graduate of Cambridge and the young servant of Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, who…”.
• William Lewin to Johannes Sturmius, September 8, 1576. May 8, 2023. “I perceive that you inquire respecting the earl of Oxford, whether he also did not recommend your case to Paulet.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, July 13, 1576. July 29, 2020. “My very good lord, Yesterday, at your Lordship’s earnest request, I had some conference with you about your daughter,…”
• Earl of Northumberland to Baron Burghley, March 22, 1576. September 2, 2020. “with my wyfe's harty commendations, and myne to my Lady of Oxforthe”.
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, January 3, 1576. July 25, 2020. “And to stop my creditors’ exclamations or rather defamations I may call them I shall desire your Lordship by the virtue of this letter…”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, November 27, 1575. July 19, 2020. “Having the opportunity to write by this bearer who departs from us here in Padua,…” 
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, September 24, 1575.  July 11, 2020. “By reason of my great charges of travel and sickness I have taken up of Mr. Baptisto Nigrone 500 crowns, which I shall desire your Lordship to see there repaid.” 
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, March 18, 1575.  July 7, 2020.  "...it has pleased him to make me a father where your Lordship is a grandfather..."
• Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon to King Henry III, January 24, 1575. August 26, 2023. “It seems that the Earl of Oxford must be the chief of the said enterprise,...”
• Sir Walter Mildmay to Baron Burghley, July 27, 1574. July 27, 2020. “Of my Lord of Oxford's returne I am glad to heare. I trust this little jorney will make him love home the better herafter. It were great pytie he shold not go strayt,…”
• The Gossip from Queen Elizabeth's Court, May 11, 1573. November 5, 2022. “My Lord of Oxford is lately grown into great credit; for the Queen's Majesty delighteth more in his personage, and his dancing, and valiantness, than any other.”
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, October 31, 1572. July 2, 2020. "I hope now, with your Lordship’s indifferent judgment, to be more plausible unto you than heretofore, through my careful deeds, to please you,..."
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, September 1572. June 14, 2020. “I must confess my negligence and too little care with the too too much trust I have put to some over mine own doings.”
• Sir Thomas Gresham to Baron Burghley, May 28, 1572. “It may like you to understand, that I have in a Readiness 2000 Marks for to pay to my Lord of Oxford,...”
• John Lee to Lord Burghley, March 18, 1571/2. November 10, 2024. “...the Earl of Oxford, who has been a most humble suitor for him...”
• Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk to Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, January 20, 1571. May 28, 2024. “My cousin of Oxford is too negligent in his friend's causes,...”.
• Letters: Earl of Oxford to William Cecil, November 1569. June 6, 2020. “heretofore you have given me your good word to have me see the wars and services in strange and foreign places”
• Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon to Catherine de Medici, February 15, 1569. January 14, 2024. “...the Earl of Oxford... would like the Queen, his Mistress, to give him leave to go and serve the King...”

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• Sir Edward Vere to Sir William Browne. August 14, 1603. April 30, 2022. “…the Muteneers, ouertooke his Rere before he was fully out of the Villadge, where they chardged those they founde…”.
• John Chamberlaine to Dudley Carleton, April, 12, 1603. April 18, 2021. “In London, the Privy Council had scheduled the funeral of Queen Elizabeth for the 28th of the month. Especially  wise for a monarch, James would proceed slowly surely for a number of reasons, but, most particularly, in order to arrive after the funeral.”
• King James I to Privy Council, April 6, 1603. April 27, 2021. “For your owne persons we can well be content to spare your travaile, the jorny being so long; and expect you at Burghley, except anie of you that is able to abyde such travaile shall thincke fitt to come to Yorke to us.”
• Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli, Venetian Secretary in England, to the Doge and Senate; March 27, 1603.  March 28, 2021. "Three days after the death of Queen Elizabeth, the event has yet to be made public. Again we find him reporting rumors he is being told rather than facts.”
• Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli, Venetian Secretary in England, to the Doge and Senate; March 20, 1603 [1602 O.S.]. March 22, 2021. “We get a look behind the curtain, reading the hints and statements that were available to the Venetian ambassadorial secretary, three days before the [Queen’s death], and how he interpreted them.”
• William Camden to Sir Robert Cotton. March 15, 1603 [1602 O.S.]. October 11, 2020. “Here their topic is the dying Queen Elizabeth. The Royal Court had developed a checklist of activities to be accomplished before a dying monarch should expire.”
• John Harington, to Sir Hugh Portman. [May or June] 1598. On Baron Burghley at Bath. October 30, 2023. “There is the impression that he may have traveled to a few places that he dearly loved...”.
• Sir Robert Cecil to Michael Hicks, 1598 (Undated). November 28, 2022. “When Burghley died, the question of the wardship of his three granddaughters, the daughters of Lord Oxford, who had deserted their mother and now had married again, became a burning question.”
• Sir Henry Maynard To Michael Hickes, August 20, 1597. August 23, 2020. “Michael Hickes was the eldest son of Juliana Penn who wrote a well-known letter demanding payment from the Earl of Oxford for the use of her inn by he and his companions.”
• Sultan Amurath III to Queen Elizabeth I, September 1589. June 14, 2018. “Most Honourable Matron of the Christian Religion, Mirror of Chastity, adorned with the Brightness of Sovereignty and Power amongst the most chast Women of the People which serve Jesu, Mistress of great Kingdoms, reputed of greatest Majesty and Praise among the Nazarites, Elizabeth, Queen of England, to whom we wish a happy and prosperous reign.”
• Christian Huygens to the Lords of the English Privy Council. August 18, 1588. August 13, 2022. “The Pope may already have consecrated the orb and scepter he intended to send Parma upon the latter’s successful landing along the English coast at Kent.”
• Thomas Doyley to the Earl Of Leicester, November 24, 1585. August 18, 2020. “…enemies goods were found in our ship, namely, the Earl of Oxfords, which they proved by letters of my Lord Treasurers to him, wherein he wrote of her Majesties grante of the commanding of horsemen, which letter one of the Earl of Oxfords chamber brought over in our boate, with his monie, apparel, wine, and venison, etc.”
• Baron Burghley to Sir Christopher Hatton, March 12, 1582 [O.S.] April 17, 2022. “…tending to bring some good end to these troublesome matters betwixt my Lord of Oxford and Mr. Thomas Knyvet…”.
• Thomas Churchyard to Sir Christopher Hatton. July 20, 1581. October 14, 2020. “if I have failed of my dutie willinglie, let me feele the price of it. I crave no pardone”.
• Lord Burghley to Sir Christopher Hatton. July 13, 1581. September 23, 2020. “Yet yesterdaye being advertised of your good and honorable dealing with her Majestie, in the case of my daughter of Oxford, I would not suffer my thankes to growe above one daye olde,…”
• Thomas Churchyard to Sir Christopher Hatton, July 10, 1581. August 12, 2020. “A souldier shoulde rather snatch, than stande at worlde's benevolence: but no man appoynts his own portion, and men often fare the worse for snatching too bouldly.”
• Thomas Churchyard to Sir Christopher Hatton, June 23, 1581. July 28, 2020. “But God knoweth, every thinge went awrye, and I stuck faste in the stockes, among many wild wolves and cruell tygers in the shapes of men, who would have worryed and torne me in pieces, had not the Kinge' s goodness garded me, such is their uncivill manner and malice, and such kancred stomaks they beare to an Englishman.”
• John Hatcher to Baron Burghley, June 21, 1580. August 24, 2020. “whereas it hath pleased your honor to recommend unto me, and the Heads of the University, my Lord of Oxenford his Players”
• Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Christopher Hatton, August 28, 1579. September 9, 2020. “As for the matter depending betwene the Earle of Oxford and me, certaynly, Sir, howsoever I might have forgiven hym, I should never have forgiven myself,…”
• Sir Francis Walsingham to John Sturmius, Oct. 27, 1576. May 06, 2018. “Of special interest should be the reference to one “Lewin”.  He is William Lewin, a graduate of Cambridge and the young servant of Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, who…”.
• Earl of Northumberland to Baron Burghley, March 22, 1576. September 2, 2020. “with my wyfe's harty commendations, and myne to my Lady of Oxforthe”.
• Sir Walter Mildmay to Baron Burghley, July 27, 1574. July 27, 2020. “Of my Lord of Oxford's returne I am glad to heare. I trust this little jorney will make him love home the better herafter. It were great pytie he shold not go strayt,…”
• The Gossip from Queen Elizabeth's Court, May 11, 1573. November 5, 2022. “My Lord of Oxford is lately grown into great credit; for the Queen's Majesty delighteth more in his personage, and his dancing, and valiantness, than any other.”
• Lord Burghley to John Sturmius, Sept. 15, 1572.  April 22, 2018.  "W. Ron Hess has suggested that Sturmius was a spy station-master and money launderer for the infamous spy network of Francis Walsingham and the Baron Burghley and that Edward de Vere's visit, in 1575, was a spy mission."
• John Lee to Lord Burghley, March 18, 1571/2. November 10, 2024. “In March 1572, England was trying to recover from rebellions in the Catholic north of the country to place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the throne.”
• Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon to Catherine de Medici, February 15, 1569. January 14, 2024. “In 1569, Queen Mother Catherine de Medici and Queen Elizabeth Tudor were two of the most savvy rulers in Europe.”
• Queen Elizabeth to Mary Queen of Scots, December 21, 1568. August 18, 2020. “as we have bene very sory of long tyme, for your mishappes and great troubles, so find we our sorrowes now doubled”.
• Lord John Gray to Sir William Cecil, November 7, 1563. August 24, 2020. “My good cousen I have heerin enclosed the coppie of my neyces letter to the Queenes Mageste, wherin I am to crave your fryndly advyes and counsel…”
• Edmund Grindal, Bishop of London, to William Cecil, October 15, 1563. June 18, 2023. “ As I am glad to hear that your disease diminisheth, so I am sorry it hangeth on you so long.... I will be bold to communicate unto you my conjecture of the cause thereof, and of the means to avoid the like hereafter”
• William Cecil to Sir Thomas Smith, August 20, 1563. November 29, 2020. “They dye in London above one thousand in a weke.”
• Bishop Quadra to King Philip II, June 20, 1562. January 10, 2021. “…gratifyingly many details of Queen Elizabeth’s court and her relations to the rest of Europe. It is the kind of behind the scenes look that…”
• Bishop Quadra to the Duke of Alva, June 6, 1562. January 3, 2021. “It is a case of a servant of mine who has been bribed by the Queen's ministers and has divulged a host of things prejudicial to private persons and, even in public matters, has laid more on to me than he could truthfully do.”
• Sir John Mason to Principal Secretary Sir William Cecil. January 28, 1562. September 27, 2020. “The people of Elizabeth's realm from the highest to the lowest had constantly been imploring her to marry and provide a (male) heir since her coronation. Suddenly, the woman arguably next in line to her in order of royal blood had an heir handy…”
• Congregation in Scotland to the Queen Regent, October 19, 1559. November 15, 2020. “Assuringe your Heighenes that yf ye in refusinge the same declare therby your [evil] Mynde towards the commen Weele of this Realme or Nation, and libertie of the same, we wyll withowte delay…”
• Catherine de Medici to Queen Elizabeth I, September 11, 1559. September 3, 2023. Catherine de Medici Thanks Queen Elizabeth for Her Condolences.
• John Calvin to Sir William Cecil [after January 29, 1559].  July 14, 2020.  “Two years ago John Knox asked of me, in a private conversation, what I thought about [government by] women. I candidly replied, that as it was a deviation from the original and proper order of nature,…”
• Queen Mary I to Henry Bedingfeld, 21 May 1554. February 28, 2021.  “On the morning of May 21, 1554, Princess Elizabeth embarked from the royal palace at Richmond,...”
• Queen Mary I to Princess Elizabeth, January 26, 1553 [1554 N.S.] February 1, 2021. “Right dear and entirely beloved Sister, We greet you well: And where certain evil-disposed persons…”
• Antoine de Noailles to the King of France. September 22, 1553. November 20, 2020. “Here the French ambassador, Noailles, takes a moment out from other matters to describe Mary’s progress in forcing her sister Elizabeth to adopt the Catholic practice of her Monarch.”
• Robert Tyrwhyt to the Duke of Somerset, February 19, 1548. September 15, 2020. “She took the Matter so hevely, that she wepte all that Nyght, and lowred all the next Day,…”
• Princess Elizabeth to the Duke of Somerset. January 28, 1548. September 19, 2020. ‘And after the Quene was departed, whan I asked of her what Newes she harde from London, she answered merilye, “The[y] say ther that your Grace shal have my Lord Admiral, and that he wil come shortly to woue you.”’
• Robert Tyrwhytt, to the Lord Protector. January 22, 1548. October, 24, 2020. “that boyth Mestrys Ashlay and her Cofferer was put into the Towre, she was marvelous abashede, and ded weype very tenderly a long Tyme”.
• Princess Elizabeth to King Edward VI, May 15, 1547. July 21, 2020. "My pictur I mene, in wiche if the inward good mynde towarde your grace might as wel be declared as the outwarde face and countenance shal be seen,..."
• Eustace Chapuys to Emperor Charles V., December 16, 1533. September 8, 2020. “Eustace Chapuys, describes the distressing experience Princess Mary endured having her title removed, her household dissolved and being assigned as a servant in the house of her half-sister, baby Elizabeth.”
• Eustace Chapuys to Emperor Charles V., September 15, 1533. September 6, 2020. “Here the ambassador is pleading with the councilors to the King to persuade him not to take the title of Princess from Mary. In the process he leaves us a colorful picture of Court diplomacy, courtiers’ fear of angering Henry and the uniform changes attendant upon a princess being demoted.”
• Eustace Chapuys to Emperor Charles V., September 10, 1533. September 1, 2020. “On Sunday last, on the eve of Lady Day, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the King's mistress was delivered of a girl, to the great disappointment and sorrow of the King, of the Lady herself, and of others of her party,…”
• Queen Anne Boleyn to Squire Josselin, September 7, 1533. August 30, 2020. “…ye goodness of Almighty God of his infinite mercy and grace to send unto vs at this tyme good speed in ye deliverance and bringing forth of a Princess to ye great joye and inward comfort of my lord.”
• Thomas Cromwell to Stephen Vaughan, May 1531. A Letter to Make a Courtier's Blood Run Cold. May 11, 2023. “his highness nothing liked the said book being filled with Seditious, Slanderous lies and Fantastical opinion“
• Mary Queen-Dowager of France to her Brother, Henry VIII. February 15, 1515. November 8, 2020. “If so, Francis was a remarkably good sport and she a remarkable negotiator for the man of her heart.”
• Mary Queen-Dowager of France to her Brother, Henry VIII. Late January, 1515. October 6, 2020. “Mary’s nervousness that Henry will choose to go back on his promise to allow her to marry by her own choice after the death of her much older arranged husband French King Louis XII is almost as evident as Henry’s and Wolsey’s nervousness that they might not be able to find a way out of it.”
• Henry VIII. to the French Minister. January 14, 1515. October 4, 2020. “Only a month or so before Louis’ final breath, Mary’s true love, the Duke of Suffolk, returned to England from her marriage party, apparently informing Cardinal Wolsey, upon his return, that the French king did not have long to live.”

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Alberto Cutie Enters the Episcopal Church with Ruhama Canellis by his Side (Article). Biscayne Bay Review Keywords: cameras, Ruhama Buni Canellis, clergy, Alberto Cutie, Deacon, Diocese of Southeast Florida, Bishop Leo Frade, Italian mosaics, media, pews, Roman Catholic priest, transept, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral.
Brokered Republican Convention in '08? (Article). TPMCafe. No longer posted.
Congressional Leadership Knew The
 Catalyzer Journal. Keywords: Rodney Alexander, John Boehner, Congressman, Mark Foley, Dennis Hastert, John Kildee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Tom Reynolds, Roll Call, John Shimkus, Talking Points Memo, Jeff Trandahl.
Context Haiti 05/02/04 The Catalyzer Journal.Keywords: Herard Abraham; Joseph Jean Baptist; Winter Etienne; FRAPH; Gerard Latortue; Raboteau massacre; Jean Tatoun; Ferdinand Wilfort.
Context Haiti: 04/10/04 The Catalyzer Journal.Keywords: Boniface Alexander; Amnesty International; Andre "Andy" Apaid; Civil Society; Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM); cocaine; Wilfort Ferdinand (Ti Will); James Foley; Reynold Georges; Me Alexander Paul; Jesse Lee Peterson; Himmler Rebu; Maxine Waters.
Context Haiti 03/25/04 The Catalyzer Journal.Keywords: Herard Abraham; Henri Bazin; Josette Bijoux; Boca Raton, Florida; Pierre Buteau; Adeline Magloire Chancy; Lamartine Clermont; Council of Sages; Paul Denis; Flashpoints; Bernard Gousse; Adamo Guino; Ariel Henry; International Monetary Fund (IMF); Anne-Marie Issa; Mac Donald Jean; Daniele Magloire; Philippe Mathieu; Miami, Florida; Smark Michel; Organization of American States (OAS); Evans Paul; Christian Rousseau; Daniel Saint-Lot; Yvon Simeon; Paul Emile Simon; United Nations; Leslie Voltaire; Yves Andre Wainwright.
Election 2004 Primer (Part 1): A Matter of Philosophy. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Election 2004 Primer (Part 2): A Matter of Approach. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Election 2004 Primer (Part 3): The Best Laid Plans... The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Election 2004 Primer (Part 4): In the Trenches. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Election 2004 Primer (Part 5): Cocaine. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Florida Anti-Gay Marriage Forces Declare Constitutional Emergency (Article) TPMCafe. No longer posted.
The Florida Democratic Un-Primary Turns Meaningful (Commentary) TPMCafe. No longer posted. Keywords:
Foley Resigns, Much More to Come The Catalyzer Journal Keywords: ABC News, Rodney Alexander, Congress, Congressman, e-mail, Florida's 16th District, GOP, House Page Board, male page, Nancy Pelosi, Thomas Reynolds, Roll Call, John Shimkus, U. S. House of Representatives.
From the Trenches: the Palanca Food Pantry (Article) Virtual Grub Street. Keywords: appeal; Associated Press; banking sector; Ben Bernanke; central banks; court case; credit markets; credit ratings; Dow Jones; electricity, equity markets; Federal Reserve; fixed income; gas; healthcare; Home Depot; homeless; insurance; labor halls; Lake Worth, Florida; minimum-wage; mortgage crisis; panhandlers; safety net; shelter; stimulus package; subcontractors; stock market; tax cut; trailers; unemployment; utilities bills; Westgate Tabernacle; working poor; world markets.
From the Trenches: the Palanca Food Pantry (Article) TPMCafe. No longer posted.
From the Trenches: Primary Experience (Article) Virtual Grub Street. Keywords:
From the Trenches: Primary Experience (Article) TPMCafe. No longer posted.
Gay Republican Congressman Confronted Foley in 2000 The Catalyzer Journal Keywords: Clerk of the House, Korenna Cline, Congressman, Florida, Mark Foley, Karen Hass, Internet, John Kolbe, page, Representative.
Hastert Says He May Have Been Told The Catalyzer Journal Keywords: Congressman, John Davis, e-mail, Mark Foley, GOP, Dennis Hastert, National Republican Congressional Committee, New York's 26th District, Thomas Reynolds, Speaker of the House, teenage boy.
The Little Guy Gets His The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Man-Boy Love Advocate Accused of Using Wikipedia to Troll for Interested Parties (Article). Rookie Revolyob, Clayboy, Zanthalon, et al: Why is Wikpedia a Pedophile Haven? Eye Online. Keywords:
A Mandate To Do Whooo-wut? The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Manufacturing Consent The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. 
Mark Foley the Day After The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords: 
Mark Foley and the Florida Legislature's Page Program: a Scarey Thought The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords:
Mark Foley Scandal Expands on New ABC Report The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords:
Mark Foley Scandal To Go Nuclear in the Week Ahead The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. Keywords:
Miami Cult Member Selling Ruhama Canellis Dot Com (Article). Biscayne Bay Review.
The Revolution Proceeds Apace The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. Keywords:
The Theater of Coup: Roger Noriega and "The Opposition" The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
The Theater of Coup: Roger Noriega and "The Opposition" Haiti Action. Keywords: Andre Apaid; Jean-Bertrand Aristide; Rudolph Boulos; Bush Administration; Dominican Republic; Gonaives; Group of 184; Haitian Democracy Project; International Republican Institute; Guy Philippe; Port Au Prince; Republican Party.
The Theater of Coup: Who is Guy Philippe? The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
The Theater of Coup: Who is Guy Philippe? Haiti Action. Keywords: Jean-Bertrand Aristide; Democratic Convergence; Fanmil Lavalas; FRAPH; Group of 184; Haiti Democracy Project; International Republican Institute (IRI); Movement for National Unity; National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Tom DeLay’s Old Sock Puppet Calls It Quits. (Article). TPMCafe. No longer posted. Keywords: 
The United States On The Road To Being Third World Country (Article). TPMCafe. No longer posted.Keywords:
Where the Strange Worlds of Fundamentalism and Homelessnesss Meet and The Kanawha County Uprising of 1974. The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords: 1974; anti-abortion; Avis Hill; Avis Hill Band; Avis Hill Ministries; Bible; Bishop; Charleston Daily Mail; Constitution; day labor; Fundamentalism; gay sex; homeless; homeless shelter; Florida; Marvin Horan; Kanawha County; Sherry McGee-Hill; minimum-wage; minister; National Coalition for the Homeless; Oasis; Palm Beach County; panhandling; prison; Progressivism; Protestant; public nuisance; realtor; Rhode Island; salvation; scripture; Seattle; Barry Silver; trespassing; Washington; West Palm Beach; West Virginia; Westgate Tabernacle.
Will Poor Market Day Affect Super Tuesday Outcomes? (Article). Daily Kos. Keywords:
Why This Must Not Be War. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. Keywords:
Why This Must Not Be War. Clamor Magazine. No longer posted.
With Florida Tied Behind Our Back! (Commentary). Virtual Grub Street. Keywords: caucus; Alvaro Cifuentes; Howard Dean; Democrat; Democratic National committee (DNC); Florida Democratic Party; Election Commission; Lane Hudson; Huffington Post; Iowa; Iraq; January 29th; Frank LaMere; Bel Leong-Hong; Nevada; New Hampshire; nominating process; pre-window period; primary; President; Republican; Virgie Rollins; Rules and Bylaws committee; South Carolina; Rick Stafford; swing-state; voter turnout.

With Florida Tied Behind Our Back! (Commentary). TPMCafe. No longer posted. 

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A Review of Opus Arte/ Shakespeare’s Globe As You Like It.  (Movie Review)  As You Like It by William Shakespeare.  Opus Arte (2010) DVD format.  Color.  Stereo.  149 minutes.  Virtual Grub Street.

A Review of Last Will and Testament. (Movie Review) Last Will and Testament.  First Folio Pictures, Inc. (2012).  DVD format.  Color.  Stereo.  85 minutes.  Virtual Grub Street.

Ginsberg's Farewell to London (Movie Review). Allen Ginsberg: Live in London Dream/Diva Pictures Ltd., 2005. Eclectica.. 

Plink, Click, Click, eeeeEEEEE, Swish-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh... Plink (Music Review). Piano & Poetry by Olga Magieres. Base Point Media, 2006. Eclectica. 

Toward the South Country (Movie Review).Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life. Directed by Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack. Image Entertainment, 2000. Eclectica. Keywords:

Baraka Directed by Ron Fricke. (Movie Review). Eclectica. ; 

Welcome To The Gilbert Wesley Purdy Hyperlinked Internet Bibliography

i. Reviewing Policies: Books and Other Media ii. Selected Listings from Paper Venues iii. Link List to Journals Cited I. Featured Items

II. Online Journalism III. Online Poetry IV. Online Translation V. Online Essays / Obits / Memorials VI. Online Interviews VII. Online Book Reviews (Poetry) VIII. Online Book Reviews (Prose) IX. Online CD & DVD reviews X. Author Information

I. Featured Items

**Strange Catalogues (Book Review). Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke. Copper Canyon Press. 2011. Eclectica.

** Upright words sound upside down (Book Review). Lao-tzu's Taoteching, trsl. by Red Pine. Copper Canyon Press, 2009. Eclectica.

**Langan, BlazeVOX... and a sense of the comical? (Book Review). Meet Me at the Happy Bar by Steve Langan. BlazeVOX, 2009. Eclectica.
**"...a bit of a misfit like me..." (Book Review). The Awakener by Helen Weaver. City Lights, 2009. Eclectica.
**"Gacela of Unforeseen Love" and "Casida of the Branches" by Federico Garcia Lorca. (Translation/Poetry). Jacket Magazine .
**Toward the South Country (Movie Review). Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life. Directed by Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack. Image Entertainment, 2000. Eclectica.

II. Online Journalism

→ Alberto Cutie Enters the Episcopal Church with Ruhama Canellis by his Side (Article). Biscayne Bay Review 
→ Brokered Republican Convention in '08? (Article). TPMCafe. No longer posted.
→ Congressional Leadership Knew The Catalyzer Journal.
→ Context Haiti 05/02/04 The Catalyzer Journal. 
→ Context Haiti: 04/10/04 The Catalyzer Journal. 
→ Context Haiti 03/25/04 The Catalyzer Journal. 
.→ Election 2004 Primer (Part 1): A Matter of Philosophy. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
→ Election 2004 Primer (Part 2): A Matter of Approach. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
→ Election 2004 Primer (Part 3): The Best Laid Plans... The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. 
→ Election 2004 Primer (Part 4): In the Trenches. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. 
→ Election 2004 Primer (Part 5): Cocaine. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. 
→ Florida Anti-Gay Marriage Forces Declare Constitutional Emergency (Article) TPMCafe. No longer posted.
→ The Florida Democratic Un-Primary Turns Meaningful (Commentary) TPMCafe. No longer posted. 
→ Foley Resigns, Much More to Come The Catalyzer Journal 
→ From the Trenches: the Palanca Food Pantry (Article) Virtual Grub Street. 
From the Trenches: the Palanca Food Pantry (Article) TPMCafe. No longer posted.

→ From the Trenches: Primary Experience (Article) Virtual Grub Street. 

→ From the Trenches: Primary Experience (Article) TPMCafe. No longer posted.

→ Gay Republican Congressman Confronted Foley in 2000 The Catalyzer Journal 
→ Hastert Says He May Have Been Told The Catalyzer Journal 
→ The Little Guy Gets His The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. 
→ Man-Boy Love Advocate Accused of Using Wikipedia to Troll for Interested Parties (Article). 
→ Rookie Revolyob, Clayboy, Zanthalon, et al: Why is Wikpedia a Pedophile Haven? Eye Online. (Article).
→ A Mandate To Do Whooo-wut? The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. 
→ Manufacturing Consent The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. 
→ Mark Foley the Day After The Catalyzer Journal.
→ Mark Foley and the Florida Legislature's Page Program: a Scarey Thought The Catalyzer Journal. 
→ Mark Foley Scandal Expands on New ABC Report The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords:
→ Miami Cult Member Selling Ruhama Canellis Dot Com (Article). Biscayne Bay Review. 
→ The Revolution Proceeds Apace The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. Keywords:
→ The Theater of Coup: Roger Noriega and "The Opposition" The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. 
→ The Theater of Coup: Roger Noriega and "The Opposition" Haiti Action. 
→ The Theater of Coup: Who is Guy Philippe? The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. 
→ The Theater of Coup: Who is Guy Philippe? Haiti Action.
→ Tom DeLay’s Old Sock Puppet Calls It Quits. (Article). TPMCafe. No longer posted. 

→ The United States On The Road To Being Third World Country (Article). TPMCafe. No longer posted.

→ Where the Strange Worlds of Fundamentalism and Homelessnesss Meet and The Kanawha County Uprising of 1974. The Catalyzer Journal.
→ Will Poor Market Day Affect Super Tuesday Outcomes? (Article). Daily Kos.
→ Why This Must Not Be War. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. 
→ Why This Must Not Be War. Clamor Magazine. No longer posted.
→ With Florida Tied Behind Our Back! (Commentary). Virtual Grub Street.
→ With Florida Tied Behind Our Back! (Commentary). TPMCafe. No longer posted. 

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III. Online Poetry

→ Mark Hanna Under Starry Skies. 55 Madonna. All Info About Poetry. No longer posted.

→ American Cafe. The Danforth Review.  No longer posted.  Journal defunct.

→ Anaktoria on the Stoop. Monadnock Review.
The Cardinal Del Monte's Collection. Polyphony. Journal defunct.  No longer posted. 
The Hordes. Polyphony. Journal defunct.  No longer posted.

→ Love's Discipline. All Info About Poetry. Journal defunct.  No longer posted. 

→ Mark Hanna Under Starry Skies and Poetry 2000TM. Cosmoetica.

→ A Meeting of the Garden Club. All Info About Poetry. Journal defunct.  No longer posted.

→ On First Looking into Lowell's Notebooks. Limestone Magazine. 

→ Poetry 2000TM. Virtual Grub Street.

→ Professor Tograth's Seminar. Polyphony. Journal defunct.  No longer posted. 

→ Seed. Consciousness, Literature and the Arts.
September 12th, 2001. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.

→ Storm. Consciousness, Literature and the Arts.

→ Tintoretto's Paradise. Monadnock Review. Keywords: Jacopo Robusti.

→ Victory Garden. The Catalyzer Journal. Journal defunct.  No longer posted.

IV. Online Translation

→ "Gacela of Unforeseen Love" and "Casida of the Branches" by Federico Garcia Lorca (Translation/Poetry). Jacket Magazine.

→ Four Poems by Ungaretti. (Poetry) All Info About Poetry. No longer posted.

→ How Fill with Joy, Happy and Well-Informed... by Michelangelo Buonarroti. (Poetry). Virtual Grub Street.

→ The Infinite by Giacomo Leopardi. (Poetry). Virtual Grub Street.

→ To Himself by Giacomo Leopardi. (Poetry). Virtual Grub Street.

→ Gacela of the Dead Boy" and "Gacela of the Terrible Presence" by Federico Garcia Lorca

→ Gacela of Distracted Love by Federico Garcia Lorca (Poetry).
Palm Beaches Review.

→ Gacela of the Memory of Love by Federico Garcia Lorca (Poetry).
Palm Beaches Review.

→ Vanity by Giuseppe Ungaretti. (Poetry). Poetry International (San Diego State University) companion web site.

V. Online Essays / Obits / Memorials

→Aime Cesaire Dies at 94 (Memorial). Daily Kos.
→ Between Zero and a Hard Place. Jacket Magazine. 
→ The 'Curse' of Salemi. Point and Circumference.
→ The 'Curse' of Salemi. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
→ Dr. Salemi's Obituary and the Consumption of Poetry. Cosmoetica.
→ The Elegy and the Internet. Virtual Grub Street.
→ The Enigma of W. D. Snodgrass. Elimae.
→ The Enigma of W. D. Snodgrass. Limestone Magazine.
→ Guy Davenport's Memorial Service Was Held This Morning. Virtual Grub Street.
→ Het Nieuve Wereldbeeld: the Magical World of Guy Davenport. Elimae.
→ Jon Norman: Tortured Enfant Anti-Hero. (Essay). Virtual Grub Street. Keywords:
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree! The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
→ True Stone and Epitaph: the Poetry of Pablo Neruda. Eclectica.



VI. Online Interviews

An Interview with Olga Magieres (Interview). Eclectica.

VII. Online Book Reviews (Poetry)

→ After the Lightning Strike (Book Review). The Lichtenberg Figures by Ben Lerner. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Eclectica.

→ Ah, the Beloved (Book Review / Essay). Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved by Gregory Orr. Copper Canyon Press, 2005. Jacket Magazine.

→ American Gothic. Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Valparaiso Poetry Review.

→ The Art of Artlessness. Tasting the Dark: New and Selected Poems by George Amabile. J. Gordon Shillingford/The Muses Company, 2001. Eclectica. 

→ Avoiding Those Who Deliver Letters. (Book Review). Our Flying Objects by Grzegorz Wroblewski. Equipage, 2007. These Extraordinary People by Grzegorz Wroblewski. Erbacce Press, 2008. Eclectica.

→ The Belle of Goshen (Book Review). What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems by Ruth Stone. Copper Canyon Press. 2008. Rattle.

→ Brisk Leaps the Heart. Chapters into Verse ed. by Robert Atwan and Lawrence Wieder. Oxford University Press, 1995, 2000. The Language of Spring ed. by Robert Atwan. Beacon Press, 2003. All Info About Poetry.

→ By Way of Sarajevo. Immigrant Blues by Goran Simic. London, Ontario: Brick Books, 2003. Rain Taxi.

→ Charm School (Book Review). More Than Peace and Cypresses by Cyrus Cassells. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Eclectica.

→ Closing Thoughts (Book Review). The Memory Orchard by Tim Bowling. Brick Books, 2005. Eclectica.

→ Desperately Seeking Sylvia (Book Review). Wedding Day by Dana Levin. Copper Canyon Press, 2003. Eclectica.

→ Doc Pereira. Saying the World by Peter Pereira. Copper Canyon Press, 2003. Eclectica.

→ Dutiful (Book Review). The Armillary Sphere by Ann Hudson. Ohio University Press, 2006. Eclectica. 

→ Elbows and Toads (Book Review). The Theater of Night by Alberto Rios. Copper Canyon Press, 2005. Eclectica. 

→ Erin Belieu Does the Poetry Bus and Other Associated Necrophilia (Book Review). Black Box by Erin Belieu. Copper Canyon Press, 2006. Eclectica. 

→ Eye of the Beholder. eye: poems & retina prints by Elizabeth Goldring. BkMk Press, 2002. Virtual Grub Street. The text of this review is hyperlinked to provide an accompanying slide show. 

→ Eye of the Beholder. eye: poems & retina prints by Elizabeth Goldring. BkMk Press, 2002. Sidereality.

→ Excursus (Book Review). Path, Crooked Path by John Balaban. Copper Canyon Press, 2007. Eclectica.

→ For Good Measure. The Secret Language of Women by A. M. Juster. Indiana: The University of Evansville Press, 2003. Eclectica. 

→ From whence comes war.... Disarmament by John Terpstra. Gaspereau Press, 2003. The Danforth Review. 

→ Fruitful Cluter. In the Dark by Ruth Stone. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Eclectica. 

→ Garbo Brushes Her Teeth! Gilbert & Garbo In Love: A Romance in Poems by Christopher Conlon. The Word Works, Inc., 2003. 

→ ...how different the world has become... Secrets of Weather and Hope (2001) and Mortal Arguments (2003) by Sue Sinclair. Brick Books. The Danforth Review. 

→ If You Have A Niche Scratch It. Alfred Dorn's chapbooks From Cells to Mindspace Somers Rocks Press, 1997 and Voices from Rooms Somers Rocks Press, 1997. Monadnock Review. 

→ In Two Senses. Eight Pale Women by James C. Hopkins. Word Works, Inc., 2003. Eclectica. 

→ The Intifadah of a Personal Humanity. So What: New & Selected Poems, 1971-2005 by Taha Muhammad Ali. Translated by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi and Gabriel Levin.Copper Canyon Press, 2006. Eclectica.

→ Mr. Pereira's Neighborhood (Book Review). What's Written on the Body by Peter Pereira. Copper Canyon Press, 2007. Eclectica.

→ The Mississinewa County School of Poetry (Book Review). Cross This Bridge at a Walk by Jared Carter. Wind Publications, 2007. Eclectica.

→ More Mortal Accolades (Book Review). The Girl with Bees in Her Hair by Eleanor Rand Wilner. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Eclectica.

→ Murdering Myself for a Living. Christening the Dancer by John Amen. Uccelli Press, 2003. Eclectica. 

→ One Woman in Her Time. In the Shadow of the Globe by Michelle Cameron. Lit Pot Press, 2003. Eclectica. 

→ Pierce Butler, Fanny Kemble, et al (Book Review/Essay). The Weeping Time: Elegy in Three Voices by Christopher Conlon. Argonne House Press, 2004. Palm Beaches Review.

→ Pierce Butler and Fanny Kemble: the Poetry of Slavery (Book Review). The Weeping Time: Elegy in Three Voices by Christopher Conlon. Argonne House Press, 2004. The Compulsive Reader. Keywords:

→ The Poet's Progress. The Collected Poems of Eldon Grier. Ekstasis Editions, 2001. The Danforth Review. 

→ A Portrait of the Artist. The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected and New by Judith McCombs. Word Works, Inc, 2005. Eclectica. 

→ Prima Materia. The Feast: Prose Poem Sequences by Walter Bargen. BkMk Press, 2003. The Pedestal Magazine. 

→ Reconstructing the Poetry of John Willis Menard. Lays from Summer Lands by John Willis Menard. Ed. by Carter Brown, Jr., Richard Matthews and Larry Eugene Rivers. University of Tampa Press, 2003. The Catalyzer Journal. 

→ The Reconstruction of John Willis Menard. Lays from Summer Lands by John Willis Menard. University of Tampa Press, 2003. All Info About Poetry. 

→ A Short History of the Perverse. One Unblinking Eye by Norman Williams. Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press/University of Ohio Press, 2003. Eclectica. 

→ A Short History of the Perverse. One Unblinking Eye by Norman Williams. Swallow Press/University of Ohio Press, 2003. Poetry Kit Magazine. 

→ Show Your Work! (Book Review). The Human Line by Ellen Bass. Copper Canyon Press, 2007. Eclectica.

→ Someone Somewhere (Book Review). The Portable Famine by Rane Arroyo. BkMk Press, 2005. Eclectica. 

→ Star Stuff (Book Review). Migration by W.S. Merwin. Copper Canyon Press, 2005. Eclectica. 

→ Stopping the Bombs (Book Review). D.C. Poets Against the War: an Anthology Ed. by Sarah Browning, Michele Elliot, and Danny Rose. Argonne House Press, 2004. Eclectica. Keywords:

→ A T'ang Canon. Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse trans. Red Pine. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Quarterly Literary Review Singapore.

→ Tapestry. The Girl with Bees in Her Hair by Eleanor Rand Wilner. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Eclectica.

→ Tapestry [pdf format]. The Girl with Bees in Her Hair by Eleanor Rand Wilner. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry. Journal defunct.

→ True Stone and Epitaph: the Poetry of Pablo Neruda. The Essential Neruda ed. Mark Eisner. City Lights Publishers, 2004. Eclectica. 

→ Two Books from Albany. Distant Kinships by Anthony Bernini. A.P.D., 2002. Three Sides to the Looking Glass by Rachel Zitomer. A.P.D., 2004. Eclectica. 

→ The Vulgar Tongue. Churlsgrace by William Hathaway. University Press of Florida, 1992. Eclectica. 

→ The Way of Mrs. Wei. The Tao of Mrs. Wei by Hilary Tham. The Bunny and the Crocodile Press, 2003. Thunder Sandwich. 

→ We Redeem What We May. Ca Dao Viet Nam transl. John Balaban. Copper Canyon Press, 2003. Jacket Magazine. 

→ What I Did Over the Summer. (Book Review/Journalism). Days of Creativity: a Collection of Poems by Jon Norman ed. by James Stidfole. Little Red Tree Publishing, 2007. Eclectica.

→ Where We Are Now. Prayer against famine and other Irish poems by John Knoepfle. BkMk Press, 2004. Eclectica. 

→ With Joaquin Miller for a Muse. Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller's Cabin, 1984-2001 ed. by Jacklyn W. Potter, Dwaine Rieves, and Gary Stein. Word Works, Inc, 2003. Eclectica. Keywords:

→ Within the Envelope (Book Review). Escape Artist by Terry Blackhawk. BkMk Press, 2003. Eclectica. 

→ A Word Association Test. Words Brushed by Music ed. by John T. Irwin. Johns Hopkins University Press. The Catalyzer Journal. 

VIII. Online Book Reviews (Prose)

→ As Through a Glass Darkly (Book Review / Essay). Reinventing the Soul by Mari Ruti. Other Press. 2006. Eclectica.

→ The Citizen Strikes Back . Citizens of the Empire: the Struggle to Claim Our Humanity by Robert Jensen. San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2004. The Catalyzer Journal.

→ The Citizen Strikes Back (Book Review). Citizens of the Empire: the Struggle to Claim Our Humanity by Robert Jensen. City Lights Books, 2004. The Compulsive Reader. Keywords:

→ A Footnote No Longer (Book Review). You'll Be Okay: My Life with Jack Kerouac by Edie Kerouac-Parker. City Lights Books. 2007. Eclectica.

→ Dueling Mythologies. Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company 1910-1945 by Geoffrey L. Buckley. Ohio University Press, 2004. Virtual Grub Street. 

→ From the Lay-by. Falling into Place by John Terpstra. Gaspereau Press, 2002. The Danforth Review. 

→ Here's Spyin' On You, Kid (Book Review). Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World by Maureen Webb. City Lights Publishers, 2007. TPMCafe. Keywords:

→ The Hero of Howl (Book Review / Essay). Howl on Trial ed. Bill Morgan and Nancy J. Peters. City Lights Books, 2007. Eclectica.

→ A Man He'll Rise... African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology. ed. by Joan R. Sherman. University of Illinois Press, 19XX. Invisible Poets: Afro-Americans of the Ninteenth Century. University of Illinois Press, 19XX. All Info About Poetry. 

→ New Wine in Old Wineskins (Book Review). Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet by Christian Wiman. Copper Canyon Press, 2007. Eclectica.

→ No Common Commonplace Book. (Book Review). Quote Poet Unquote ed. by Dennis O'Driscoll. Copper Canyon Press. 2008. Eclectica.

→ A Review of K. D. Miller's Holy Writ. Holy Writ by K. D. Miller. The Porcupine's Quill, 2000. The Danforth Review. 

→ A Review of The Solid Form of Language by Robert Bringhurst. (PDF format) Gaspereau Press, 2004. The Georgia Review.

→ Sex Trek: the New Generation. Sex Carnival by Bill Brownstein. ECW Press, 2000. The Danforth Review. shers, 2005. The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords:

→ Small Book, Big Issues. 

→ Slouching Toward Sausalito (Book Review). In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country by Etel Adnan. City Lights PubliNothing Sacred by T. F. Rigelhof. 

→ Traversing Omphalos (Book Review). Honorable Bandit: a walk across Corsica by Brian Bouldrey. University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. The Compulsive Reader.

→ What She Said. Wisdom & Metaphor by Jan Zwicky. Gaspereau Press, 2004. The Danforth Review. 

→ Whittling Away at the Beast. Superpatriots by Michael Parenti. City Lights Publishers, 2004. The Catalyzer Journal. 

IX. CD & DVD Reviews 

→ A Review of Opus Arte / Shakespeare's Globe As You Like It.  (Movie Review) Virtual Grub Street.

→ Baraka Directed by Ron Fricke. (Movie Review). Eclectica. 

→ Ginsberg's Farewell to London (Movie Review). Allen Ginsberg: Live in London Dream/Diva Pictures Ltd., 2005. Eclectica.

→ Plink, Click, Click, eeeeEEEEE, Swish-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh... Plink (Music Review). Piano & Poetry by Olga Magieres. Base Point Media, 2006. Eclectica.

→ Toward the South Country (Movie Review).Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life. Directed by Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack. Image Entertainment, 2000. Eclectica.




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