Monthly Archives: January 2018

New News! Announcing a “En Plein Aire” Ten Day Poetry Retreat in Italy, October 4 to 14th, 2018

January 31, 2018 – 8:07 pm

  POETRY EN PLEIN AIR The Second Recovering Words Generative Poetry Retreat at La Romita School of Art Terni, Umbria, Italy 10 Days in Residence October 4th to Oct. 14th, […]

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Bell, Day and Klobah – Poets to Read – And Here, Three of Their Poems – Writing the Body Erotic

January 28, 2018 – 10:44 pm

AND THEN the man remembers your body, remembers to love you again, flicks you like a switch that has waited, ready in the room’s shadows. Loneliness rises from each reclaimed […]

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Living in a Terrifying World – Three Responses from Three H’s – Hughes, Hirschfield and Hayden

January 24, 2018 – 9:08 pm

Luck Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven. Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) […]

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R.I.P. – Ursula Le Guin (1929-2018) – The Poet, the Monster and The House of Poetry

January 23, 2018 – 11:23 pm

  For the New House May this house be full of kitchen smells and shadows and toys and nests of mice and roars of rage and waterfalls of tears and […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – # 36 in a Series – Smiling at the Other’s Welcome – Langston Hughes and Derek Walcott

January 23, 2018 – 9:11 pm

Final Curve When you turn the corner And run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) from […]

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Uncovered to the Bone – The Eyes and Poems of Sam Sax

January 4, 2018 – 8:27 pm

from On Syphilis I know the easy treatment meted out to me comes directly from their suffering I know all things are this way a single injection trails with it […]

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Synchronicity – A Sweetness to Savour on New Year’s Day 2018 – Another Tribute to W.S. Merwin

January 1, 2018 – 5:20 pm

A Momentary Creed I believe in the ordinary day that is here at the moment and is me I do not see it going its own way but I never […]

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