THE LAST ROMANTIC VERB as a free download

The 64kbps MP3 of the entirety of my new CD
THE LAST ROMANTIC VERB
is now available as a download (or to just listen to) via
Radio City of Legends.

Listed as this week's podcast of FROM OUT OF THE CITY, it is available there and will be up on Apple's iTunes Music Store later today.

Be careful, even at the lower fidelity, it is still a massive file.

The Arts in Education event that AEI is putting on here in Morgantown kicked off last night with a concert by Kathy Mattea. It is essential that educators understand the importance of arts in education, it has been about a year and a half since I spoke before the West Virginia Board of Education on that very topic, and I would gladly do so again (I am not part of this event, nor do I expect to be included in all such events...besides, as the fates had it, had I attended I would have not been able to bail out Barnes & Noble when their poetry event organizer fell sick at the last moment, so it was all for the best).

We cannot afford to create second-class worker bees by limiting the education of our students to a narrow band. It is that very thinking that has contributed to our slide in the industrial world in education and productivity. We have some universities that are the envy of the world, but our secondary school system, aided by showboat exercises like "No Child Left Behind", is in decline.