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February 22, 2015
Me with Lynne Tillman at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art...
Me with Lynne Tillman at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art yesterday. One of of my favorite writers, and a dear friend since the early 1990s, but I hadn’t seen her in years. She was in Portland for the launch of her book Weird Fucks, published by New Herring Press in a beautiful edition with color paintings by Amy Sillman.
Photo: Daishin Stephenson
February 18, 2015
Philip Levine: What Work Is
I’ve been thinking a lot about the work of Philip Levine since hearing of his death last Sunday, particularly this poem:
WHAT WORK IS
We stand in the rain in a long line
waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work.
You know what work is—if you’re
old enough to read this you know what
work is, although you may not do it.
Forget you. This is about waiting,
shifting from one foot to another.
Feeling the light rain falling like mist
into your hair, blurring your vision
until you think you see your own bro...
February 15, 2015
February 14, 2015
Love: A Dharma Talk for Valentine’s DayTalk I gave at The...
Love: A Dharma Talk for Valentine’s Day
Talk I gave at The Sitting Frog Zen Center in Phoenix a few years ago
February 13, 2015
Four pictures of a beautiful Friday the 13th in Portland
Four pictures of a beautiful Friday the 13th in Portland
February 12, 2015
Bus stop poetry. Another reason to love Portland.
Bus stop poetry. Another reason to love Portland.
February 11, 2015
free-parking:Edgar Allan Poe’s manuscript for “Annabel Lee,”...
Edgar Allan Poe’s manuscript for “Annabel Lee,” published in 1849, the year of his death.It was the last work he ever completed.
Trying
She looks like a 14-year-old boy, but she’s a 20-year-old woman. She asks a fellow passenger on the light rail if she can borrow his phone to call the group home she’s just moved into. The train is delayed, and she’s worried about losing her place there for breaking curfew. She was homeless, and had to wait for more than a year to get into the group home, where she can spend two years learning the skills she needs to create and keep a stable life. “It’s a really...
January 29, 2015
Of Darkness and Light—free on Amazon Kindle
My first book, published in 1989 (to which I’m currently planning a sequel), is temporarily free on Kindle.
"Bram Stoker… M.R. James… Stephen King… Now there is Barry Graham."
- Scottish Field
"I’m there when it gets dark to kill you if I can…"
The Bogey Man’s sinister chant used to scare the wits out of Gary Scott when he was a five-year-old, growing up in the worst part of Glasgow. But now, nearly twenty years later, he’s an experienced, and he likes...
January 26, 2015
Pictures from a Sunday morning walk in Portland
Pictures from a Sunday morning walk in Portland
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