Tag: Leo

• * update: the reading

  Happy to report that the Windfall Reading last night was a great success! The evening started off with Tim Volem introducing Eliot Treichel who read from his collection of short stories, Close Is Fine (Ooligan Press). He read “The Golden Torch”, the last in the collection, a story about the trials and tribulations between father […]

  José Angel Araguz

  February 21, 2013

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  Airlie Press, Anita Sullivan, arts, astrology, books, chapbook, Corpus Christi Texas, Eliot Treichel, Eugene Oregon, Eugene Public Library, klcc radio, Leo, literature, Ooligan Press, poetry jams, short stories, the friday influence, The Wall, Tiger’s Eye Press, trials and tribulations, Virgo, Windfall Reading Series, writing

• * on poetry readings

  If poems are children, poetry readings are PTA meetings. — Vera Pavlova You don’t go to poetry readings for the poetry. Mind you, this isn’t a remark from a cynic, far from it. I am a believer in the poetry reading, both its flaws and magic. From the rambling what should I read next talk to […]

  José Angel Araguz

  February 15, 2013

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  astrology, bookstore, Buddy Wakefield, chapbook, College of Santa Fe, Corpus Christi Texas, creative writing, Del Mar College, duende, Eliot Treichel, Eugene Oregon, Eugene Public Library, Jose Angel Araguz, Leo, literature, open mic readings, open mics, Patricia Smith, poetry slams, pta meetings, rhyming love poems, Roger Bonair-Agard, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, slam poets, stand up comics, the friday influence, The Wall, Tiger’s Eye Press, Vera Pavlova, Virgo, Windfall Reading Series, writing

• * Stanley Kunitz & the friday influence

  Touch Me - Stanley Kunitz Summer is late, my heart. Words plucked out of the air some forty years ago when I was wild with love and torn almost in two scatter like leaves this night of whistling wind and rain. It is my heart that’s late, it is my song that’s flown. Outdoors all […]

  José Angel Araguz

  August 17, 2012

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  astrology, bookstore, coffee shop, Corpus Christi, creative writing, crickets, Eugene Oregon, garden, Jose Angel Araguz, Leo, literature, lyric poems, MFA, Paul Valery, poetry, poetry workshop, Stanley Kunitz, the friday influence, The Wall, Tiger’s Eye Press, Virgo, writing

• * Louise Bogan, an update & the friday influence

  Roman Fountain – Louise Bogan Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air, Reach to its rest, and fall. Bronze of the blackest shade, An element man-made, Shaping upright the bare Clear gouts of water in air. O, as with arm and hammer, Still it is good […]

  José Angel Araguz

  August 10, 2012

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  astrology, bookstore, Corpus Christi, creative writing, Eugene Oregon, fountains, Jose Angel Araguz, Leo, literature, Louise Bogan, lyric poems, MFA, midnight, Naomi Shihab Nye, Nicholson Baker, novels, poetry, poetry workshop, Roman Fountain, short lyric poems, The Anthologist, the friday influence, The Wall, Tiger’s Eye Press, water, word choice, writing