Lesley Jenike's Blog, page 17

According to Waywiser.

According to Waywiser.

Over spring break I got to see:1. horses--most notably Fu...

Over spring break I got to see:
1. horses--most notably Funny Cide2. my "nephew" Jack and his mama my second favorite redhead3. Kristi, Michael, Bryon, Kirk, Joe, Kate, James, Ruth R., John, Micah, George, etc. 4. a very large dog5. Shutter Island6. Myself with short hair. (I'm actually still seeing that.)
Now that I'm back in Columbus I got to see Don Bogen and tonight I get to see Joanna Newsom
All in all, not bad seeing.

Here's a post up on the 32 Poems blog about formal poetry...

Here's a post up on the 32 Poems blog about formal poetry I wrote quite a while ago, before I read Ravi Shankar's piece in The Writer's Chronicle which basically says the same thing but a lot more intelligently. Anyway, this is not to suggest the particular kind of poetry I espouse in my article is the ONLY kind of poetry I like, but I hope it instead suggests that a poem's music can derange the senses in really cool ways.

A new favorite poet:GeneticsMy father's in my fingers, bu...

A new favorite poet:
Genetics

My father's in my fingers, but my mother's in my palms. I lift them up and look at them with pleasure--I know my parents made me by my hands.
They may have been repelled to separate lands,to separate hemispheres, may sleep with other lovers,but in me they touch where fingers link to palms.
With nothing left of their togetherness but friendswho quarry for their image by a river,at least I know their marriage by my hands.
I shape a chapel where a steeple stands.And...

I'm now a proud member of the Columbus Zoo. I can bring o...

I'm now a proud member of the Columbus Zoo. I can bring one guest with me when I go and I hope to go a lot over the summer to take pictures and do some writing. I don't like the Columbus Zoo as much as I like the Cincinnati Zoo, but I live in Columbus and I'll make do.

One of the greats.

One of the greats.

Ok. Ok. Ok. So I didn't win. Oddly enough, the guy who ta...

Ok. Ok. Ok. So I didn't win. Oddly enough, the guy who taught at CCAD before us won. Sophia and I swooped in, he swooped out--and then went on to win the Anthony Hecht Prize. Maybe there's something cosmic about that. One can only hope. At the very least I can now safely say the manuscript feels finished and given the go-ahead.
In other, happier news, Josh KILLED at the Rumba Cafe Monday night--all those roads leading to childhood, dotted with goats and casseroles. It was all movie stars at l...

Most of my favorite female musicians have, at one point o...

Most of my favorite female musicians have, at one point or another, been called "elfin," or "sprite-like," or, worst of all, "child-like." Reviews of their music sometimes sound like Frye on Shakespeare's "green world," with images of forests and forest creatures and herbal remedies and escape from worldly time, etc. Why? Because they're not "sexy" in any conventional way? Because they're often sopranos? ( high voices are disorienting and SCARY!) Because they're British or Icelandic or because...

Holly K. apparently had her manuscript picked up (and got...

Holly K . apparently had her manuscript picked up (and got a shout out on the BAP blog)! I'll always remember Holly and Peter and gin (all at once and usually on someone's front porch) fondly. Can't wait to read it!

I've gotten rid of the last post because it's bad karma. ...

I've gotten rid of the last post because it's bad karma. Bad. Bad. Karma. 
Here's Marianne instead: 
No Swan So Fine
"No water so still as the    dead fountains of Versailles." No swan,with swart blind look askanceand gondoliering legs, so fine   as the chintz china one with fawn-brown eyes and toothed goldcollar on to show whose bird it was.
Lodged in the Louis the Fifteenth  candelabrum-tree of cockscomb-tinted buttons, dahlias,sea-urchins, and everlastings,   it perches on the branching foamof...