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Charles Simic, editor of The Paris Review is the new Poet Laureate of the U.S., replacing Donald Hall. Time flies. I thought it was still Ted Kooser. Each person is over the 10 poetry collections mark, and into the white-haired area. P.S. Simic also won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award the same day of his […]

Compare and Contrast is the theme challenge of the week at One Deep Breath a hay(na)ku platitudes whitewashed words picket senses, locked and Fibonacci sequence (1/1/2/3/5/8) rain on ridges blackberry alveolar ridge winter forgot these sensations and a short poem, classes concentration: first sonnets tongue tips stuck out. I watch iambs being led to slaughter.

Various things have caught my eye lately of people blogging about poetry, reading or writing it. At the Guardian there was an article of a woman reflecting how she felt after she read the entire stack of books nominated for a poetry prize. After immersion in poetry she started to crave novels but when free […]

Toes tight curled in shoes, arriving in a private park near the border of B.C. and Alberta, driving down the switchback lane down bluff, with a guard rail looking like a wriggly gum wrapper caught around the worst curves. At dusk, setting up camp, peg poles in by feel, fingers finding lilliputian cacti. Overcast night […]

Poet and Photographer Sharon Harris read first. The subject was the pataphysics of the science of love. It is based out of love and her Avatar collection of poems. For its launch she painted herself purple. John W’s Photo of Sharon Harris at the Factory reading July 19th catches the spirit of her presentation, in […]