Tag: reading

• * 2015 end of year reading

  Time once again for my end of year reading - which technically this year is more of a first of year reading - so however you feel fit to see it, please do. See it, that is. I have been busy the past 3 weeks reading through the last leg of my reading list for […]

  José Angel Araguz

  January 1, 2016

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  arts, astrology, books, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, creative writing, Eli’s BBQ, Eugene Oregon, Everything We Think We Hear, flash fiction, Floricanto Press, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, lyric poems, Ohio River, poetry, prose poem, prose poetry, publication, reading, the friday influence, Virgo, writing

• * a colorful lyrical alignment

  This week’s post features a lyrical alignment of an excerpt from Victoria Finlay’s book Color: A Natural History of the Palette. This is the kind of nonfiction book that tries to break down information through story and personal recollections. Finlay writes of her travels to the places where particular colors are made and goes into the details […]

  José Angel Araguz

  August 21, 2015

  lyrical alignments, Uncategorized

  arts, astrology, books, Cincinnati Ohio, Color: A Natural History of the Palette, Corpus Christi Texas, Eugene Oregon, found poetry, John Tyndall, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, lyric poems, lyrical alignment, poetry, reading, short lyric poems, the friday influence, Victoria Finlay, Virgo, writing

• * stepping into the river with Charles Simic

  The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who’s to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket. Charles Simic Since I quoted the man last week in regards to the prose poem, I thought I would share some of Charles Simic’s […]

  José Angel Araguz

  May 17, 2013

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  arts, books, cats, Charles Simic, Corpus Christi Texas, creativity, culture, Eugene Oregon, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, poetry, prose poems, reading, Taurus, the friday influence, Virgo, writing