Tag: Corpus Christi
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futuring with julio cortázar
two personal notes I want to first acknowledge and show my support for anyone suffering and struggling due to Hurricane Harvey. In my world, I have been checking in with my family in Corpus Christi since last Thursday. Everyone is safe there; struggled without power from last Friday to Wednesday, but safe. I have done…
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* where the poet is: a personal note
In an essay entitled “Tough Eloquence,” poet Yusef Komuyakaa writes about the life and work of Etheridge Knight. There’s a story and poem towards the end of the essay that has always stayed with me throughout the years: “Etheridge Knight died in March 1991. For more than a year before, at various readings, he’d say…
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* Phil Levine & the friday influence
This week on the Influence: Philip Levine. When I read the following poem to Ani she picked up on something I did not when I first read it four years earlier: that it takes place in Spain. This makes sense seeing as Phil Levine has spent much time in Spain and written often on the…
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* Onions & the friday influence
This week on the Influence: Onions! Seriously: in keeping with last week’s post, I have decided to share this poem of mine, “Onions”, which was also revised after publication. The original of this poem found a home at The Windward Review. It came out of a writing exercise where I wrote about something I hated.…
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* missing Corpus Christi
The above image is from the Sea Wall in my hometown of Corpus Christi Texas. It stretches up and down Ocean Drive, down past the Whataburger by the Bay, down into the palm-trees lining downtown. Go a little further and you’ll end up at the old site of the factory I used to work at.…
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* some words from Basho & the friday influence
This week The Friday Influence introduces the “some words from” feature – on the last Friday of each month expect a quote or two from poets that have and are presently influencing my work or simply blowing my mind. Our first feature: haiku poet Matsuo Basho! Here he is talking about the idea of sabi:…
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