Robert Peake pointed to a berkley webcast event of Li-Young Lee about 45 minutes long. (The UC Berkeley site has more —Holloway series and lunch poems) Lee is such a delight to hear. Part of it is his bashful modesty, the way he is Clark Kent until he lets the words take him and us […]
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Poetry Hit
A week of poetry festival is a little bit of paradise come early. To add extra whip cream to the week of sundaes, I got my Comstock Review in the mail too. It’s the 20th Anniversary Awards issue no less. How in the world will I get anything else done with my attention so captivated […]
Links to Poetry
Long-time ago fellow from IWW Poetry-W poet friend, Scott Speck wrote a poem about me. And over at the Bear Parade is online chapbooks? a pdf published magazine? Not sure what it is but Matthew Rohrer‘s poem is characteristically quirky, fragmentary of the surreal meeting the daily, or for a second sample, this from Touch […]
Tanka
Bridge Prompt and bridge photo and resulting tanka of solitude by riverbank in the privacy that fog affords, mist by the water inside soft arch walled in by fog I own all the air I can see
William Stafford
Diana introduced me to William Stafford poems. [ed. Note: Funnily enough I thought I hadn’t heard of him but exploring more I found that at some point I sat with his book of poetry The Way it Is and didn’t appreciate what I was reading. I don’t know that I would yet but it might […]