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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. Grace Paley died this past Wednesday. Sad, sad news. She came to my home for a party when I lived in Gainesville and was an absolute delight. –sigh–
One of the reasons I’ve not blogged a bit more regularly is above. I’ve been participating in National Poetry Writing Month. Sandra Beasley started an August version of the event. I like to call it the 31-Day Poetry Challenge. Some of my August 2007 titles:
Electricity
Funeral
Song of the Scrub Tech
Surgery
Virginia
Birthing Time
Mangos
The House
Postcard from Anger
The 39th Week […]
What a delight to open up Book World today and find “Night Air” from C. Dale Young’s book Second Person. You can read the full poem at Dale’s website, which I designed for him.
Although not poetry related, I had to share this.
This video mentions how new cars contain devices that record what happens just before or after a crash. The device will know how fast you were going at the time of impact and whether you braked.
Your cell phone — when on — tracks everywhere you go […]
Are you looking for ideas of poems to memorize? Readers such as yourself recently listed favorite poems. I think “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” is on my list of poems to memorize.
While we’re on the topic of September’s challenge, what shall we call the month? The word “memorize” […]
The world provided more pleasant interruptions today. Funk music is on the radio. Millet with veggies is on the menu. I’m currently reading The Writing Life by Francine Prose. Currently doing: Yoga nidra.
Today is a day for nurturing, inventing, creating and eating well.
Be well everyone. I’ll be back tomorrow with more.
A while back, I wrote about being a Wallace Stevens junkie. I read and re-read one of his poems and would get annoyed if the phone rang when I was in the middle of yet another reading of it.
I stumbled across this old post of mine and wondered (again) what poems we return to […]
1. Open a dictionary and flip through the pages. Select 3-5 words you happen to come across. Note the definition if you do not already know the word. Pick words you’ve not used in a poem before. Now, write a poem using the words.
2. Include a strange place name such as Hell, MI or Tombstone, […]
Since there’s April Poetry Month, I hereby declare September to be “Memorize Poetry” month. You don’t even have to memorize all the poems in the world — only four.
One poem per week…how difficult can that be? Here are rules:
1. One poem can be shorter than 10 lines. Ideally, the others should be longer than 10 […]
I’m working on an enormous personal project at the moment. It must have been insanity that encouraged me to agree to another NaPoWriMo, though I am calling it The 30 Day Poetry Challenge (30DPC) instead.
One way I’ve saved (started to save?) some time is to subscribe to all the blogs I read via Bloglines. Oh, […]