Monthly Archives: April 2017

In Great Company – Heidi Garnett’s Poem in Your Pocket

April 28, 2017 – 9:36 pm

Wish List I want to meet a blue parakeet that reads the future pulling Tarot cards with one delicate outstretched foot, the hanged man uncovered.  I want to own a Corvette, a 1960 red and white convertible hardtop and drive around town with my dog Bud.  I want to write love poems as if world […]

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Full -Up! Poetry La Romita, June 23rd to July 3rd, 2017

April 28, 2017 – 8:21 pm

So pleased to announce that my 10 day poetry retreat in Umbria, Italy has filled up to its max! So looking forward to hanging out with a great community of writers at La Romita School of Art in June!

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Yes! The Sure Footed Poems of Rosemary Griebel

April 24, 2017 – 7:24 pm

PLACES TO LOOK FOR A MOTHER for Joan Shillington After your mother’s death I wanted to tell you, grief makes you a traveler in the foreign territory of every day. Look for her in small places: the pure loneliness of early morning; the hollows alongside animal trails leading to salt; where the Milky Way touches […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – #29 in a Series – Marie Howe’s Divine Spark

April 14, 2017 – 9:01 am

BEFORE THE BEGINNING Was I ever virgin? Did someone touch me before I could speak? Who had me before I knew I was an I? So that I wanted that touch again and again without knowing who or why or whence it came? Marie Howe from Magdelene, W.W. Norton & Company, 2017 In her astonishing […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – # 28 in a Series – The Delicacy and Ferocity of Franz Wright

April 1, 2017 – 11:33 pm

I’m trembling with fear.  Just as well that what I’m about to write is already somehow written within me. What I have to do is copy myself out with the delicacy of a white butterfly. Clarice Lispector from The Hour of the Star,  New Directions, 2011 I am addicted to great quotes on writing, especially […]

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