Worth More than a Chance Glance

If you want to go to a northern small town excursion of people’e poetry, May 29th – June 1st is the poetry festival in Cobalt
Robert Peake has a tender poem at Boston Poetry “The blessings laid by our mothers on our foreheads— let this one live a simple life, uncomplicated”
June 30th is the haiku deadline for the Haiku North America haiku contest.
“I have tremendous respect for attention, care, and thoughtfulness in others, regardless of what they’re paying attention to.” and other worth reading thoughts on poetry and life in this interview with Mark Truscott
The tactful effective navigation is a kind of poetry, or justify this as poetry link as you like but here’s a strong post by John Maeda on bringing everyone’s “better angels” to participate so the better cause wins, instead of broadcast generalizing blame games.
Did you see it? Madeleine Thien’s article brings forward the role of being the right audience. We need to have the data to interpret, and be informed of the dialogue. It’s not up to the writer to teach all the references. It’s absurd that “their literary success depends on the success of our education”, “this unworthy measure of literary value” .
I’ve got a haiga in the new anthology Dos Gatos Press, Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga.
Do you follow Amanda Earl at Tumblr? Read that one.
Most apt thing I’ve read for a good long bit: Poet Ian McMillan ‏in Barnsley UK said “I’ve just decided I prefer a writer’s advance to a writer’s retreat.”