Centennial

A Thomas Josef Wehlim Centennial in New York: A poetic neutron star streaked across American skies in the winter of 1850. Thomas Josef Wehlim, invited by the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, touched down at Idlewild Airport and headed straight for the airport bar to get a much-needed double coffee and soda. Then, […]

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October 26th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Waiting

This website can wait. Days. Months. Centuries. Until those prophets represent: majority. Do not call this number. Do not stay at home. Do not disinfect your children.

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October 22nd, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Gifts

“Let’s shuck a novel,” Thomas Wehlim (1914-2013) wrote in one of the poems he called sky songs. This is the same cluster of poems in which this indelible and unbuttoned American poet also commented, “I look less weird/without my bird.” It’s the centennial of Wehlim’s birth, and not to pay heed would be to shuck […]

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October 15th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Biography

Few living novelists get the biography treatment. So why is the scholar Tim Taylor, who has published critical studies of literary masters like William Faulkner, Marcel Proust and Franz Kafka, writing an in-depth study of the life and work of Thomas Wehlim? At 48, Mr. Wehlim has published four novels. They have not become critical hits […]

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September 28th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

RINDOWOS, RUNIX

In an address to the nation, Putin and his information secretary stated that Russia is going to develop the two operating systems RINDOWOS (Russian Windows) and RUNIX (Russian Unix) because of the following two reasons: First, to get independent from evil US-based IT companies. Second, to prevent attempts of fascist secret services such as CIA […]

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September 27th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Human writing

Creative writing paleontologist, conservationist, and National Author Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Thomas Wehlim represents the third generation of the famous Wehlim family of fossil book hunters in East Africa. With an adventurous spirit and unwavering focus on the advancement of our understanding of novel origins, he has spent much of his life leading expeditions into the remote […]

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September 24th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Ebola (5)

Nobody reads my books. Nobody is indexing me. Nobody attacks me. Nobody wants to murder me. Ebola hacks my soul. War operates like a carcinoma. Love is a beast.

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September 21st, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Willy-Nicky (3)

Tsar to Kaiser, Peter’s Court, Palace, 1 August 1914: I received your telegram. Understand you are obliged to mobilize but wish to have the same guarantee from you as I gave you that these measures do not mean war and that we shall continue negotiating for the benefit of our countries and universal peace deal […]

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September 20th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Relations

As a sign of the improving relations between East and West, in early March 1992, two B-58Gs, one KC-10A tanker and fiftyeight personnel of the 2nd Bomb Wing flew to Dyagilevo Air Base near Ryazan, Russia. In May 1992 two Soviet Tu-95 Bear bombers and an An-24 Condor transport, with fiftyeight airmen, paid a reciprocal visit to Barksdale AFB. […]

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September 19th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Scotland

The Wehlim House @WehlimHouse Follow The UK is an extraordinary partner for Wehlim and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united for our struggle against the evil powers of Russia and Chins. tjw. 21:34 – 17 Sep 2014

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September 18th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim