Tag: sketching
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* new work at american tanka
Just a quick post to announce the release of American Tanka’s issue 25: “between cries.” The issue starts off with one of my own tanka, which can be read here. In preparing to share the news, I found myself sketching back into the scene that inspired the tanka. Here is my best rendition of the…
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* one for Bill Knott
Bill Knott’s death last week had me digging through my journals to find this week’s poem. It’s a sonnet I wrote in homage to the man after reading his book The Unsubscriber. I did a post on his work last November (which can be checked out here) in which I shared some of my sketches.…
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* sketchiness with Bill Knott
The above is a snapshot of where I’m at in my sketching. While I would love – and will continue to aspire to – sketch nice scenes of trees (really, just trees, nothing too fancy) I keep coming back to these little efforts that make me smirk. Do people groan at visual puns? I’d really…
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* sketching with Miriam Sagan
This is a church right across the street from our new apartment in Cincinnati. We have moved into a historic district which reveals new things with each walk we take around the neighborhood. The drive across country was a series of things being revealed. In Itasca, Ani pointed out a cardinal excitedly, fascinated with how…
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