Tag: haiku
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brief dispatch: sharing is caring
This week has me busy at the Solstice MFA low-residency program’s virtual winter residency. I’m having a lovely time spending time with this great community. The workshops are virtual, but the vibes are all real, ha. Even shared a shape poem exercise I wrote about here a bit ago. Also shared this week: This cool…
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poetryamano project: august 2017
This week I’m sharing another installment archiving my Instagram poetry project entitled @poetryamano (poetry by hand). This account focuses on sharing poems written by hand, either in longhand or through more experimental forms such as erasures/blackout poems and found poems. Below are highlights from August 2017. This month found me focusing on haiku on short, imagistic haiku.…
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Fire Writers Conference
This past Monday I had the honor of leading a workshop for the Fire Writers conference, a one day series of creative writing workshops conducted for high school students from public and private schools across Yamhill County. The conference was held at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg, Oregon. Workshop leaders included Kate Carroll de Gutes, C.…
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update: new work
I’ve been behind in sharing some of my recent publications of the past few months so I’ll be doing a few short posts this week to rectify this. First up – new work: I’m honored to have my poem “Conditioning (Run Study)” published in the latest issue of Hunger Mountain “Everyday Chimeras.” They have been…
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* monopoem giveaway winners!
Just a quick post to announce the winners of the current Mosca Dragón monopoem giveaway: Laura Kaminski & Jennifer Met! Both Laura and Jennifer were kind enough to share some poetry in their comments: Laura shared these lines filled with stunning imagery: the wing patterns of white-tailed dragonflies are tai chi fish in flight: where his wings…
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* haiku & new monopoem giveaway!
I lay down all the heavy packages — autumn moon. Patricia Donegan * reaching the top of the mountain losing the mountain Michael Fessler * losing its name a river enters the sea John Sandbach * say no words time is collapsing in the woods Sonia Sanchez * The above haiku are drawn from Haiku in…
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* knocking around with kenyon & meyers
The Suitor – Jane Kenyon We lie back to back. Curtains lift and fall, like the chest of someone sleeping. Wind moves the leaves of the box elder; they show all their light undersides, turning all at once like a school of fish. Suddenly I understand that I am happy. For months this feeling has…
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* layers via michael s. harper & basho
Village Blues – Michael S. Harper The birds flit in the blue palms, the can workers wait, the man hangs twenty feet above; he must come down; they wait for the priest. The flies ride on the carcass, which sways like a cork in a circle. The easter light pulls hims west. The priest…
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* short lyrics: (pre)spring mix
As I am on the road – in Corpus Christi, Texas promoting Everything We Think We Hear to be exact – I thought I would do a short, fun post of some seasonal short lyrics. Could be that the winters in Cincinnati are tough that I’ve got spring on my mind already. I’d like to say…
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* a meditation on brevity with paz, ritsos, & carruth
Writing – Octavio Paz I draw these letters as the day draws its images and blows over them and does not return It’s suiting to begin this meditation on brevity with Paz who once said that he admired the short lyric for being the hardest kind of poem to write. Anyone who’s worked out…
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