BLACKBERRY EATING I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost […]
Monthly Archives: August 2016
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August 26, 2016 – 10:47 am
I was thrilled to be able to join the on-line Art Bar Poetry Reading Series on November 2nd, 2021. I taped a twenty-five minute video! The Art Bar Reading Series is based in Toronto and they will be hosting in-person events beginning in December! My last Art Bar reading was in 2016 for the launch […]
The Bigness of Small Poems – #19 in a Series – David Fraser Storms the Unspeakable!
August 15, 2016 – 4:16 pm
The End The room is too small for a serious debate between two lovers who are no more, but perfect for the silences of space, the cosmos swallowing up comment, leaving only one exit for both of them, each not wanting to be the first. David Fraser from After All the Scissor Work Is Done, […]
Where Does a Great Poem Point To? – Poems and Comments by Franz Wright and Li-Young Lee
August 8, 2016 – 3:58 pm
NOT NOW for Dzvinia Orlowsky Where is the the man of heaven in me— my body’s filthy, face and hands completely filthy with the man of dust This mask this glove of human flesh is all I have and that’s not bad and that’s not good not good enough not now Franz Wright (1953-2015) from […]