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Presented in conjunction with the PAAM exhibition June 24-August 14, 2011 John Grillo played a seminal role in the development of Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco bay area and is acknowledged as “perhaps the first and purest action painter on the west coast.” (Thomas Albright Art in The San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980). In 1946 Grillo enrolled in the San Francisco School of Fine Arts under the G.I. Bill; when funds and art supplies were scarce, he experimented with whatever was on hand, including coffee grounds and cocoa. But as the art historian and curator Susan Landauer describes, “he reserved his most radical experimentation for the medium of watercolor. For sheer inventiveness of technique [his watercolors] rivaled vanguard developments in the East, and in their spontaneity and dramatic intensity, many of these paintings bear the hallmarks of classic Abstract Expressionism.” Remarkably, Grillo’s gestural work predates or parallels the development of action paintings by celebrated abstract expressionists Franz Kline, William De Kooning and Jackson Pollack. The exhibition at PAAM will feature over thirty of Grillo’s groundbreaking watercolors. Please join the artist, now in his 95th year, for a gallery discussion at PAAM.

Presented in conjunction with the PAAM exhibition June 24-August 14, 2011 John Grillo played a seminal role in the development of Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco bay area and is acknowledged as “perhaps the first and purest action painter on the west coast.” (Thomas Albright Art in The San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980). In 1946 Grillo enrolled in the San Francisco School of Fine Arts under the G.I. Bill; when funds and art supplies were scarce, he experimented with whatever was on hand, including coffee grounds and cocoa. But as the art historian and curator Susan Landauer describes, “he reserved his most radical experimentation for the medium of watercolor. For sheer inventiveness of technique [his watercolors] rivaled vanguard developments in the East, and in their spontaneity and dramatic intensity, many of these paintings bear the hallmarks of classic Abstract Expressionism.” Remarkably, Grillo’s gestural work predates or parallels the development of action paintings by celebrated abstract expressionists Franz Kline, William De Kooning and Jackson Pollack. The exhibition at PAAM will feature over thirty of Grillo’s groundbreaking watercolors. Please join the artist, now in his 95th year, for a gallery discussion at PAAM.

1Betsey and I Are Out

By Will Carleton

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of <em>Betsey and I Are Out</em> by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for March 22nd, 2009.

2How Betsey and I Made Up

By Will Carleton

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of <em>How Betsey and I Made Up</em> by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 3rd, 2009.

3House Where We Were Wed

By Will Carleton

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The House Where We Were Wed by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for August 23rd, 2009.

4Up The Line

By Will Carleton

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Up The Line by Will Carleton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 7th, 2010.

5Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine

By William Carleton

A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCarson)

6One and Two

By Will Carleton

This was the Fortnightly Poetry for November 10, 2013.<br /><br /> William McKendree Carleton was an American poet, best known for his poems about his rural life.

7Apples Growing

By Will Carleton

William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life. "What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer, Will Carleton has done for the American-touched with the glamour of poetry the simple and monotonous events of daily life, and shown that all circumstances of life, however trivial they may appear, possess those alternations of the comic and pathetic, the good and bad, the joyful and sorrowful, which go to make up the days and nights, the summers and winters, of this perplexing world" - Summary by Wikipedia

8Goin' Home To-Day

By Will Carleton

William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life. "What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer, Will Carleton has done for the American--touched with the glamour of poetry the simple and monotonous events of daily life, and shown that all circumstances of life, however trivial they may appear, possess those alternations of the comic and pathetic, the good and bad, the joyful and sorrowful, which go to make up the days and nights, the summers and winters, of this perplexing world". - Summary by Wikipedia

9Farm Ballads

By Will Carleton

Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where the poet grew up and spent much of his life before eventually moving to Boston. - Summary by Carolin

Here we are swinging back into adventure with the third exciting issue of The Thrill Book, an influential early pulp magazine featuring stories of action, horror and mystery sure to get your heart pounding! In this issue, we have the conclusion of the mysterious lost race jungle adventure "In the Shadows of Race" as well the suspenseful crime story "At the End of the Wires" and several other tales of ghostly happenings and murderous vengeance to bring a smile to the face of the well-seasoned pulp fan. - Summary by Ben Tucker