Tag: meditation
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meditation: william stafford
This time last year found me writing about meditation in a blog post for the Cincinnati Review, about its place in both the writing and personal life. It’s one of those concepts and practices that gets lost under human error and flash, much like good poems often get lost in the error and flash of […]
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new poems up at Gris-Gris & new CR post!
Just a quick post to announce the release of the latest issue of Gris-Gris, which includes my poems “The Ladder” and “Clock Affirmations.” “The Ladder” is dedicated to my friend Christine Maloy whose passing is also commemorated in my second chapbook, Corpus Christi Octaves. This issue also includes work by Alejandro Escudé, Kristen Jackson, and Stanley Rubin among […]
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* meditating with yannis ritsos
In my recent interview as part of my Distinguished Poet feature for The Inflectionist Review, I spend some time talking about the poet Yannis Ritsos and his poem “Protection” which I wrote about two years ago here. I feel that ever since discovering Ritsos’s work years ago I keep coming back. The most recent return has […]
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* arriving with Denise Levertov
Overland to the Islands – Denise Levertov Let’s go — much as that dog goes, intently haphazard. The Mexican light on a day that “smells like autumn in Connecticut” makes iris ripples on his black gleaming fur — and that too is as one would desire — a radiance consorting with the dance. Under his […]
The Friday Influence 