Tag: the friday influence

• * some words from Basho & the friday influence

  This week The Friday Influence introduces the “some words from” feature - on the last Friday of each month expect a quote or two from poets that have and are presently influencing my work or simply blowing my mind. Our first feature: haiku poet Matsuo Basho! Here he is talking about the idea of sabi: […]

  José Angel Araguz

  November 30, 2012

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  arts, astrology, bookstore, chapbook, Corpus Christi, creative writing, Eugene Oregon, haiku, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, lyric poems, Matsuo Basho, poetry, sabi, the friday influence, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, The Records of a Travel-worn Satchel, The Wall, Tiger’s Eye Press, translation, travel, Virgo, writing

• * special feature: Kenneth P. Gurney

  This week The Friday Influence is proud to feature the work of Kenneth P. Gurney! Ken and I struck up a friendship during my brief time in Albuquerque. He runs the Adobe Walls Open Mic out of Page 1 Books, the used bookstore where I worked. Once a month - while helping clean up and […]

  José Angel Araguz

  November 23, 2012

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• * Sylvia Plath, boarded trains & the friday influence

  Metaphors - Sylvia Plath I’m a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising. Money’s new-minted in this fat purse. I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I’ve eaten a bag of green […]

  José Angel Araguz

  November 16, 2012

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• * strange week 2: tree yoga & cinquains

  So: another strange week has come upon us. (No - nothing to do with the election. Well, not really.) There has been some construction going on in our house these past two weeks, much of it occurring on my days off - which are the days that I sit down to formulate the good thoughts […]

  José Angel Araguz

  November 9, 2012

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• * strange week & a poem

  It’s been a strange week here in my world. I promise to be back with a more regular post next week. For now, please enjoy this poem of mine published originally in Hanging Loose, a great magazine out of Brooklyn. More info on them can be found here. The poem comes from my time working […]

  José Angel Araguz

  November 2, 2012

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• * special feature: Poet Lore magazine & a poem

  “I know you are reading this poem as you pace beside the stove warming milk, a crying child on your shoulder, a book in your hand because life is short and you too are thirsty.” —Adrienne Rich This week on the Influence: Poet Lore! One piece of advice that has helped me grow in spirit […]

  José Angel Araguz

  October 26, 2012

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• * w. s. merwin & the friday influence

  Dusk in Winter - W. S. Merwin The sun sets in the cold without friends Without reproaches after all it has done for us It goes down believing in nothing When it has gone I hear the stream running after it It has brought its flute it is a long way *** This week on […]

  José Angel Araguz

  October 19, 2012

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• * Beautiful & Pointless by David Orr - a quick review

  Just finished reading David Orr’s lovely book: Beautiful & Pointless, a marvelous and sly book. Marvelous because Orr is able to navigate through the realm of contemporary poetry - both the writing of it and the living of it - in a charming and knowledgeable manner. Sly because his essays have forced me to take a […]

  José Angel Araguz

  October 10, 2012

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• * Fanny Howe & the friday influence

  (poem from Robeson Street) - Fanny Howe Pushing children in plaid & silver prams us mothers were dumpy, hunched in the damp and our redlipped infants sucked on their strange fingers […]

  José Angel Araguz

  September 28, 2012

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• * out to sea on the friday influence

  Sea-weed - D.H. Lawrence Sea-weed sways and sways and swirls as if swaying were its form of stillness; and if it flushes against fierce rock it slips over it as shadows do, without hurting itself. *** This week on the Influence: an explanation! This past few days have been kind of rough in my world. […]

  José Angel Araguz

  September 21, 2012

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