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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. Amy King and Reb Livingston gave me the idea to create a holiday gift guide of…poetry. Why not?
Why not give poetry to everyone on my holiday list?
This […]
The photos from the burlesque poetry happy hour at the hotel rouge are already up. Bernadette Geyer won the auction for the belt I took off. She needed a belt. Perfect! As we walked out into the night, my pants were falling off and hers were just fine. I gave her a ride to the […]
Visit Steven Schroeder’s blog for a list of some first poetry book contests. He has also compiled a list of presses with open poetry reading periods.
I stumbled across bottled Kombucha (pronounced Kom-boo-cha) Tea at my local health food store. I selected the ginger flavor. Since it was a 16 oz bottle, I had no intention of finishing the whole thing…but it was soooo good.
Since I enjoy eating whole foods and know how and what I eat can prevent me from […]
I’m reading at the Burlesque Poetry Happy Hour on Monday the 27th.
The announcement follows:
Join us for the last Burlesque Poetry Hour of 2006! Amy King, Harriet Levin and Deborah Ager are taking it off for Lolita and Gilda at Bar Rouge in Washington D.C. Monday, November 27. Reading will begin at 8:00 p.m. in […]
Thanks to Diane K. Martin for pointing out this Linda Gregg essay. I love what Gregg says here:
I am astonished in my teaching to find how many poets are nearly blind to the physical world. They have ideas, memories, and feelings, but when they write their poems they often see them as similes. To break […]
First, Rebecca Loudon’s book was nominated for a Pulitzer!
Second, Octavio Paz…
MOTION
If you are the amber mare
I am the road of blood
If you are the first snow
I am […]
A lot of people ask me how I can do so much. It’s just how I am, so I don’t think about the process in detail. A few of the most time-consuming projects I have are day work, 32 Poems, writing poetry, mothering, wife-ing, keeping up social relationships, and working on other projects. Since I […]
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Anyway, this is the poetry I plan to curl up with on a cold autumn night. Yes, I’ll curl up with my laptop. That’s the modern way, people. Note that Blackbird has poems from 32 poems contributors — Terese Svoboda and Laura Van Prooyen.
Ever since the tree fell on our house, I’ve dreaded oncoming thunderstorms. Meeting the claims adjuster (who has seen it all in terms of storm damage) and talking to her about her worse case stories didn’t help either. In one of her claims, lightning came in through a window and burned a hole in the […]