In Boozo Veritas
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In Boozo Veritas #41: How To Get My Mom To Gossip And Other Family Secrets
In Boozo Veritas #41 by Teege Braune How To Get My Mom To Gossip And Other Family Secrets for Merla Belle Mothers and sons have, at times, a tenuous relationship. I’m told that for mothers and daughters this is even truer. How many writers have said I can’t publish a word until my mother passes away? Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #39: Three of My Favorite Poets in Orlando
In Boozo Veritas #39 by Teege Braune Three of My Favorite Poets in Orlando In case you haven’t noticed, I have been celebrating Poetry Month by dedicating each blog I’ve written in April to the art of verse. Furthermore, as this is In Boozo Veritas, I’ve attempted to find subjects that have a particular connection to drinking. Fortunately, Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #38: Dylan Thomas, and Words That Leave Us Dumb
In Boozo Veritas #38 by Teege Braune Dylan Thomas: Words That Leave Us Dumb On November ninth, 1953, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, already decrepit and ill at the age only thirty-nine years old, took a drink and had another. “I’ve had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that’s a record!” he announced and then fell forward dead Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #37: Words and Whiskey
In Boozo Veritas #37 by Teege Braune Words and Whiskey Two of Cups Press’ collection of bourbon-inspired poetry called Small Batch begins with a brief description and history of bourbon followed by this short piece by David S. Atkinson entitled “A Bourbon Poetry Submission,” I heard this press wanted poems about bourbon. This confused me, because Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #36: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
In Boozo Veritas #36 by Teege Braune The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám It is a shame that no one can talk about Edward FitzGerald’s best selling nineteenth century poem The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám without weighing in on the famous controversy surrounding the former’s admittedly un-literal translation of the Persian poets original quatrains. The never ending Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #35: Mothers Bring Your Sons, Fathers Bring Your Daughters
In Boozo Veritas #35 by Teege Braune Mothers Bring Your Sons, Fathers Bring Your Daughters A few weeks ago I was honored to be invited by my friend Cathleen to participate in her reading series, Literocalypse. Cathleen Bota and Kristen Arnett began Literocalypse in the fall of last year and host it in The Space, a Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #34: Before the Tortoise Dons his Raincoat
In Boozo Veritas #34 by Teege Braune Before the Tortoise Dons his Raincoat: Preliminary Thoughts on an as of Yet Unwritten Piece of Music In the middle of my freshman year of college I met a shy young man named Nat Evans with whom I began a friendship after I wrote this haiku by Shiki on Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #33: St. Patrick’s Day
In Boozo Veritas #33 by Teege Braune St. Patrick’s Day If you are the kind of person who celebrates holidays by listening to podcasts, you’ve no doubt already enjoyed The Drunken Odyssey’s drinking roundtable discussion recorded especially for St. Patrick’s Day. Somewhere among the odd off topic asides and the sounds of clinking glasses I share Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #32: No Rest For the Weird
In Boozo Veritas #32 by Teege Braune No Rest For the Weird Here it is a sunny, beautiful Monday afternoon in Orlando. What in the hell am I still doing working on In Boozo Veritas!? This should have been finished twenty-four hours ago! Like Dr. Duke alone in Vegas, panic is creeping “up my spine like Continue reading
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