Tag: reading
-
* 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 […]
-
* new work & nomination!
Just a quick post to share that my poem, “Cazar Means to Hunt Not to Marry,” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by December Magazine. This poem is part of my second collection, Small Fires, forthcoming from FutureCycle Press. This poem can be read at December Magazine’s site along with the other stellar nominees […]
-
* in solitudarity with dulce maría loynaz
LXV Pasaste por mi corazón como el temblor de luz por la colmada red del pescador. LXV* You poured through my heart like the shimmering light that streams through the fisherman’s loaded net. * This week I have been spending time with the work of Cuban poet Dulce María Loynaz. As can be noted above, […]
-
* 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 […]
-
* 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 […]
-
* shifting with yosano akiko
This week I’m sharing tanka by Yosano Akiko as translated by Roger Pulvers.* In a previous post about her work, I focused on the role of tension in her poems. This time around, I have selected tanka that shift narratives midway. Line by line, the three poems below develop their narrative arc, only to shift […]
-
* new poem at Terrain!
Just a quick post to announce that my poem “American Studies” has just been published at Terrain: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments (link includes audio)! This poem is part of Terrain.org’s “Letter to America” Series which “presents urgent, powerful, and beautiful post-election responses from writers, artists, scientists, and thinkers across the United States.” This series so […]
-
* leticia hernández-linares & the mission
This week’s poem comes from CantoMundista Leticia Hernández-Linares’ collection Mucha Muchacha/Too Much Girl (Tía Chucha Press) which I reviewed earlier this week. While my review focused on collection’s confluence of musical traditions and sensibilities, the poem “Bringing Up the Sun” represents another facet, that of establishing the presence of a neighborhood on the page. In this poem, […]
-
* new poem up Rove!
Just a quick post to announce the publication of the latest issue of Rove, a digital broadside quarterly! Check out “The Rhetoric of Todo” , from my Nada Poems sequence, rendered as a beautiful digital broadside in this issue. I am happy to have this poem presented alongside stellar work by Miriam Bird Greenberg, Tyler Brewington, and Katie […]
The Friday Influence 