Tag: Taurus
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* grounding with natasha tretheway
Letter - Natasha Tretheway At the post office, I dash a note to a friend, tell her I’ve just moved in, gotten settled, that I’m now rushing off on an errand—except that I write errant, a slip between letters, each with an upright backbone anchoring it to the page. One has with it the fullness…
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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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* leaving with cavafy
One Night - C. P. Cavafy The room was cheap and sordid, hidden above the suspect taverna. From the window you could see the alley, dirty and narrow. From below came the voices of workmen playing cards, enjoying themselves. And there on that common, humble bed I had love’s body, had those intoxicating lips, red…
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* a meditation on brevity with paz, ritsos, & carruth
Writing – Octavio Paz I draw these letters as the day draws its images and blows over them and does not return It’s suiting to begin this meditation on brevity with Paz who once said that he admired the short lyric for being the hardest kind of poem to write. Anyone who’s worked out…
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* three years of the influence
This weekend marks the 3 year anniversary of this blog. Yay! This week’s poem - “A Flock of Sheep Near the Airport” by Yehuda Amichai - takes on the idea of attention in a way that ties into the spirit in which I started the blog. The first stanza evokes the kind of conflicted feelings…
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* from hands to manos
This week’s post is a meditation on form via sharing some new publications. First, the good folks over at Rattle have recently shared the content of their Summer 2014 issue online which includes my own poem “Abandoned Church.” Rattle is unique in that they ask for some insight into the work via the contributor’s bio, which…
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* some news & milosz
First off, I want to announce the release of the latest issue of Foothill, which includes my poem “The Accordion Heart” here. Check out the rest of the great work in this issue here. Next, I’d like to share the news that my poem “Don’t Look Now I Might Be Mexican” has placed 3rd in…
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* My Writing Process Blog Tour!
Happy Monday, y’all! I’ve been invited to participate in the My Writing Process: Blog Tour by poet extraordinaire, Lisa Ampleman. Here’s some info on Lisa: Lisa Ampleman is the author of a book of poetry, Full Cry (NFSPS Press, 2013), and a chapbook, I’ve Been Collecting This to Tell You (Kent State University Press, 2012). Her poems have appeared…
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* gratitude with Marilyn Nelson
The above is a photo of the latest issue of Slipstream - which I am happy to say includes my poem “Burial Clothes”. A quick leaf through upon opening the package the issue came in introduced me to fine poems by Terry Godbey and Rita Moe. I’m waiting until the weekend to dig into the…
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* who we are & Yannis Ritsos
Protection - Yannis Ritsos The sky bends over us, responsible, as our poem bends over the sadness of mankind, as the sensitive, initiated eyelid bends over the eye, protecting the pupil of the eye from the dust, the improvised light, the hardly perceptible insects, so that the eyes may open again forewarned and free, each…
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