I read novels. Not all novels but. In the exceptional one each sentence hooks forward and stands fresh in perspective. For example, “One of the doctors said that his boot had probably saved his life, and she felt like kissing it, although in all the confusion, no one knew exactly where it had ended up.” […]
Category archives: Mulling
Nowlen
“oh, admit it, man, there’s no point in poetryif you withhold the truthonce you’ve come by it” -Alden Nowlen
Between
Been reading, editing, gardening, sewing, cleaning. I have a backlog of books read that I’d like to summarize, note, review. Eventually they’ll be too many and I’ll skip and start where I’m at again. I’ve been thinking that a chapbook can be as dextrous as a bicycle, moving nimbly among items of a meditation. Single […]
Women’s writing
You suppose I’ll scare anyone off with a title like that? Is it a pejorative phrase? It niggles at my that the workshop on the history of women’s tanka and haiku, while it attracted a good number, all were female. There was a proportional to population representation who showed up for a senryu workshop, albeit, […]
Poetics Statement
poetics statement 2021 What am I trying to do? What am I trying to avoid? What do I value? what do I want to write? why? what matters? what do I want to read? Is it still process not product? Whereas before I wanted to break systems of thought, habits and associations and what passed […]