Monthly Archives: April 2018

Let Poetry Speak It – Grief but Also Happiness -For My Friends Laura and Walt – Their Son Killed in an Accident

Meals of Grief & Happiness 1 I believe in the tears of an elephant. How they stamp the ground and forget they are in musth— panting—and cinnamon shrubs or piles […]

Begin Afresh, Afresh! Poems of Spring by Larkin and Limón

  Instructions on Not Giving Up More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton […]

Saved by Poetry – Sam Hamill, Poet, Editor, Publisher (1943-April 14th, 2018)

Blasphemy For Sam Hamill Let the blasphemy be spoken: poetry can save us, not the way a fisherman pulls the drowning swimmer into his boat, not the way Jesus, between […]

Catching Fire -Writing En Plain Air – An Invite to Richard’s October Retreat in Italy 2018

RECOVERING WORDS IN ITALY  A Generative Poetry Writing Retreat with Richard Osler – experienced poetry facilitator and author of Hyaena Season “Catching Fire – Writing En Plein Air” I write […]

Poetic Healing – Poems of Grief and Healing in the Aftermath of the Humboldt Broncos’ Tragedy

Grief Trying to remember you is like carrying water in my hands a long distance across sand. Somewhere people are waiting. They have drunk nothing for days. Your name was […]

Where Do Poems Come From? Prado and Whipple Respond!

Human Rights I know God lives in me as in no other house. I am his countryside, His alchemical vessel, and, to his joy, His two eyes. But this handwriting […]