Tag: sonnet
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turn, volta, turn
Some quick thoughts and sharings from this week: As many of you know, I’m a board member of CavanKerry Press, and I’m excited about the work done by this literary organization. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve managed to maintain their staff and publishing schedule, while conducting various community outreach events virtually. They are currently doing…
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* reading from The Divorce Suite!
September ended up being such a busy month that I never got around to sharing more excerpts from The Divorce Suite (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016). Luckily, a recent outing to the Spring Grove Cemetery provided a nice background and inspiration for a reading. Below are the poems “Gift” and “The Accordion Heart” along with a clip of my…
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* new work up at salamander magazine!
Just a quick post to share my poem “Odin and the Runes” recently published and made available by Salamander Magazine! I have several “unofficial” sonnets throughout my manuscripts, but this one is one of my favorites due to how I came to write it. I was reading heavily into Norse mythology at the time and…
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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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* throwing things on the floor with Jim Harrison & John Keats
In reading Jim Harrison’s novel The English Major last month, I came across the following and it brought tears – I have been much for tears these days – and mainly because I have been slowly going over poems I have memorized, seeing what stuck and what fell off, and was suddenly surprised to recognize the…
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* what a poem does & Russell Edson
What makes them poems is that they are self-contained, and once you read one you have to go back and start reading it again. That’s what a poem does. (Charles Simic) Charles Simic said the above in regards to his own collection, The World Doesn’t End, which consists of a series of prose poems. I love…
The Friday Influence 