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What to Make of Such Beauty? Straight from THE ALCHEMIST'S KITCHEN

I fell in love with Sarajevo and by extension, Bosnia Herzegovina in 1996 and 1997 when I worked there as an electoral supervisor for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In 2007, I returned to Sarajevo and Mostar to give a series of readings and learn first hand of the changes in the country in the ten years since the war. My belief in the people and culture of this small country continues. I very much hope to return again. Lejla, who is quoted in the poem, was my ...

Happiness is a Warm Book

I am so thrilled with what has appeared on my doorstep this morning! After years of writing, months of proofing and all the work, The Alchemist's Kitchen, is now out in the world. A real book in beautiful colors, font, and texture. I can't stop stroking it!

I realize it is an alchemical experience to create a book. How do images, ideas, and experiences accrue until they are pressurized into words, lines, stanza breaks? I've wanted to be an author since I first learned to read, before I learned...

The Poetry of Space - The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

I have been thinking about book trailers recently and thinking more about visual images.I came across a website called Cabinet of Wonders run by Heather McDougal where she's posted this video produced by NASA. It's short and haunting and reminds me that poetry is a natural state of the world - we try to express in words an extraordinary movement that predates language. Maybe. Here's the short clip on the mysteries of the universe. Happy travels into the Ultra Deep.