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The new issue of Chrysanthemum magazine is online. It’s multi-lingual, which is always nice to see so the world doesn’t feel so much like an anglo vacuum. Two of my favorites from the issue (is it inappropriate I only quote the English, having just said that?) are by Pia Lorentzen and Ellen Compton respectively. The […]

Poetic Speed, OpenSecret and Brandon Wint came on stage for a few pieces. One felt liturgical in a sense of cadence of Father I’m sorry of apologizing for atrocities from fgm to date rape and Montreal Massacre. They recited the names of all the women killed. Afterwards he said I’m sorry for that weight but […]

Ivy Lee Deavy who also does charcoal-quilt art did a piece at VERSeFest where the timeline fluxed back and forth. It held together but the 5th wall of time was rippling alternate timelines. Did she just imagine what if they brushed past each other, what it if they reunited, what if they talked it out. […]

It’s World Poetry Day so for the occasion I’ll share a poem draft. I’ll likely change substantially again because, y’know poetry is motion: A tourist here It’s peculiar the things I know in languages that I do not; his few words stumbled out, apology tumbled toward her face. words staggered, his hand clutched the doorframe […]

Visual poetry and interview with Judith Copithorne. Here’s a curious snippet that I’ve believed but not heard anyone articulate before. Interviewer Steve Calvert said, “All coded human expression is perceived and processed by the human nervous system as identical to and indistinguishable from language.” We create dichotomies between genres of expression for our convenience of […]