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Thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here and want to keep up on poetry and 32 Poems, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Lines started to come to me while I was getting 32 Poems issues ready to send out. I told Bill to watch the baby and dashed upstairs to […]
This Quick Muse web site — and the idea behind it — intrigues me. Thanks to M and J for sending it my way.
Usually, we don’t talk about New Year’s resolutions when it’s ninety degrees outside. My resolution was “less sh-t” in all parts of my life. So, today we are after “things.” Downstairs, in the cool and semi-dark basement DH and I found utensils we’d not unpacked since we got married 9 years ago and plates we’d […]
We went to a festival with my parents a week ago. The local park played host to food vendors, papier mache cars, and a clown on stilts. The really hot action was at the playground where Miss O squealed with happiness in the baby swing.
At the entrance to the park were about six police […]
I did a whirlwind tour of our town’s homes. The owners of one house had set out bowls they collected. I asked the owner about one of them. “It’s Eva Zeisel,” she said. That’s what I’d thought. I asked her, “Did you visit the exhibit at___” and, before I could finish, she said, “Hillwood.” Yes! […]
Thanks to Dale for pointing out this article about our former teacher William Logan. He is one of the best poetry teachers, and it took me years to realize how much I learned from him.
UPDATE TO BIRTHDAY PRESENTS POST:
My sister called to ask what I want. Oh sheesh-oh-man. I caved. I realized they are going […]
On a listserv, someone said “Isn’t there a kind of careerist compulsion behind going to places like “MacDowell and VCCA”? Like: the names get listed in your credentials and make you seem like a better poet, when in fact…?”
That led me to wonder what people mean by “careerist poet” anyway? What is the definition […]
Every year, my mother starts asking me what I want for my birthday several months in advance. She’s already started asking me about what O and DH want and their birthday isn’t until August. Of course, does she supply us any information on what she might want? Nope! So, she’s going to get photographs of […]
Sunday, May 21, 2006, 4 PM
Featuring D.C. poets whose work appears in Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual, Vol. IV, edited by Richard Blanco (Tigertail Productions, 2006). Followed by an open mic. Readings of place poems encouraged!
Featured poets: Deborah Ager, Naomi Ayala, E. Louise Beach, Sarah Browning, Jody Bolz, Grace Cavalieri, Rose Solari, Jeneva Stone, […]
We went to Florida this past weekend to introduce the 9-month-old baby to the 100-year-old great-grandmother. Yes, she’s still with it.