Phil Rice: Ode on a Miracle
Interlude: Ode on a Miracle A cold January morning. I wake, shower, pour a cup of coffee into a go-cup, and get in the car. The morning...
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We are very pleased to announce that the coming months will feature the publication of two distinct poetry collections from Canopic...
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Hal Rice: "Sausage Bowl"
Mike "Hugo" Wright: drums & schingbo Hal: all the other stuff
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Charles E. Rice: photo of Brenda & Penny Campbell, 1975
Born in the John Ross House in Rossville, Georgia, Charles Rice lived most of his boyhood at the foot of Missionary Ridge on the...
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Hal Rice: "Oh Why"
My dad really liked this song (which I wrote and recorded somewhere in the eighties) so that's why I thought I'd redo it. --Hal, from the...
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The Noodles: Baby Won't You Let Me Rock & Roll You
The NOODLES, "Baby Won't You Let Me Rock & Roll You" (written by Alvin Lee; arr. by Hal) The Noodles: Jeff Taylor, vocals Jimi Foglesong,...
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"Appalachian Memories," a poem by Gene Kimmet
Appalachian Memories Hairpin turns in old cars With bad brakes, the reek Of whiskey. Tacky towns With tilted streets, young girls...
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"Sangoma," a poem by Rethabile Masilo
Sangoma The sky is heavy with rain. She touches heads of hundreds with her hand and walks among them, the bones in her sack in agreement...
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Carolyn Haynes: excerpt from "The Lloyd Haynes Story"
On one of my many phone conversations with Lloyd’s mother, I thanked her profusely for all the time she spent teaching Lloyd as a boy....
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"Sunbelt," flash fiction by Jim Biedenharn
I don’t have any idea how long we had been following the truck, but if you squinted into the noon glare the familiar pig’s head logo...
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Sarah Hasty Williams: "Captain Charlie's Porch"
First comes the idea, the vision, the creative voice. Then the mind gives wings to that voice and vision. The soul moves through the...
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"Here's the Thing" by Ciretta Marion Carroll
Here’s the Thing (For Janice and Phil) Slowly the news of your reality came to Most of us in this modern age on our screens – Distance...
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Yang Wan-li: "Crossing Open-Anew Lake"
A fisherman’s taking his boat deep across the lake. My old eyes trace his path all the way, his precise wavering, in and out of view....
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Canopic Riffs: Rosko Gee on Chris Wood
Editor's note: Rosko Gee entered my consciousness as the superb bass guitarist on Traffic's When the Eagle Flies LP (1974), which was...
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Phil Rice: Words for Charles, My Son
Charles Leslie died on Dec. 23, 1992, not quite five months past his birth. According to the paperwork, he died of SIDS, an acronym for...
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The Art of Alan Phillips
Around the turn of the latest century, Canopic was introduced to the artwork of Alan Phillips. We even had the honor of collaborating...
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Canopic Riffs: Hal on NRBQ
“They played like a choir from heaven that just drank their first gaggle of cheap beer.” “NRBQ ... ” “Terry Adams wanted his band to have...
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Mick Lee: Undiscovered Dinosaur
Phil Rice's Foreword for Undiscovered Dinosaur: Adventures with Rock Legends of the 60s, 70s, and 80s by Mick Lee. If I were to...
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"The Mirror Poem" by R. Carpease
Intro: Super X Drugstore, Nashville, Tennessee, sometime in 1985. I’m there looking for a six-pack of beer. Passing the magazine aisle I...
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Tim Pfau: Fragments
There is a long and pleasant corridor, in the finest Nursing Home I have seen, protected by a coded locking door. On either side, life’s...
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