I think my record stands in still not getting a good picture of Monty Reid. He was the feature reader at Dusty Owl. He did a retrospective of poems from the last 25 years, with a concentration on Owls, given the venue. He read samples from The Life of Ryley from 1981 and Dreams of […]
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Currently Reading
The Days are Nouns: touch them by Naomi Shihab Nye. An article on Daphne Marlatt in Capital Xtra. (not included in online version) Deleted World, Tomas Transtromer, as translated by Robin Robertson. (in 2nd pass thru cover to cover) Walking into the Night Sky by Lyn King of Toronto (2002, Brick Books). (reading two after […]
Read Write Poem
Another prompt site has launched this month. This one goes live with a new prompt each Wednesday at midnight. [found via Velveteen Rabbi]
Stones and a FW: haiku course
One Breath Poetry has the prompt of pebbles, stones, boulders. oceanside campground all night roll backs of round stone — place to shake out shoe not a pebble – loose toenail in sock — lifting a stone ant nursery, pink eggs fussed over — While you’re out, be sure you don’t miss Laughing Gypsy’s response […]
Shout Outs
Edward Nudelman in Ampersand. Harriot West, of IWW has a haiku in Ripples on the animals page and there’s a page of rain that strikes me as pleasing too. Also Peake on Kunitz on pivot and line and Marcus’ mention of my chapbook. Also nice to see is cb forrest and Sandra Ridley in the […]