Tag: anthology
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recent publications
Quick post to share some recent publications both poetry and essay, online and in print! * Happy to share that my essay, “Becoming the Weather: Reflections on Poetry as Cultural, Political, and Spiritual Act,” has been recently published in Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making ~ An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics (The Operating System,…
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* excerpts from a new anthology!
I Collected Dead Things As A Child – Nita Penfold starting with insects, variegated and delicate, pinned carefully into the cigar box — iridescent Tiger beetle, round striped bumble bee, green stick figure of a praying mantis — my whispers to them went unanswered. Then a pheasant wing with my feathers like intricate lace in…
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* meeting at the Café San Martín
I came across this week’s poem – “Café San Martín” by Agustín Cadena – while reading through the anthology Goodbye Mexico: Poems of Remembrance. I find in the lyric a subtly profound meditation on the past, or rather the past we live with in our memories which is always juxtaposed against the ever-changing the present. This being the…
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* new anthology: Goodbye, Mexico
We Are Of A Tribe – Alberto Rios We plant seeds in the ground and dreams in the sky, Hoping that, someday, the roots of one Will meet the upstretched limbs of the other. It has not happened yet. Still, Together, we nod unafraid of strangers. Inside us, we know something about each other: We…
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* more from desde Hong Kong
I recently received my contributor’s copy of the anthology desde Hong Kong and have been enjoying dipping into the collection of great tributes. One in particular stood out in my reading. I share it below to further celebrate this anthology’s publication. In “Going Home,” British-Canadian poet Phoebe Tsang delves deep into an image (a la Paz)…
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* quick post: desde Hong Kong & some news
Just a quick post to announce the release of the anthology desde Hong Kong: Poets in conversation with Octavio Paz (Chameleon Press), which includes my octave sequence “Octaves for Octavio Paz.” I was excited by the submission call early this Spring and came up with some rather different takes on the octave. Using a line by Paz…
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* Donald Justice & the friday influence
The Assassination – Donald Justice It begins again, the nocturnal pulse. It courses through the cables laid for it. It mounts to the chandeliers and beats there, hotly. We are too close. Too late, we would move back. We are involved with the surge. Now it bursts. Now it has been announced. Now it is…
The Friday Influence 