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February 1, 2011
Anatomy of a Snow Day
Youngest child wore his bright red plaid pajamas inside-out, surefire guarantee of the snow day.Mama and said boy did the Wild Happy Snow Dance just to make sure, with appropriate whooping and wheeling about... It looked rather native American this time. Must've been the 1/16th Mohawk popping out (his, not mine, but evidently contagious.) I would think the snow would obey even a bit of
January 31, 2011
Sundry on Monday
BONTASAURUS FLOWERSI am liking Dave Bonta's wildflower poems at Via Negativa. These are responses to photographs by Jennifer Schlick. Some of Dave's poems have interesting responses in turn from Luisa Igloria. At left is Schlick's unusual photograph of False Solomon's Seal; I think this is the one that most surprised me.THE BIRTHDAY ROSES & WIELDING THE TREE FINDER http://qarrtsiluni.com/2011/01/
January 24, 2011
Poems at qarrtsiluni
"Wielding the Tree Finder" and "The Birthday Roses" (the latter from The Book of the Red King): here. Podcasts as well. Please comment there, not here--as a former q-editor, I'd rather qarrtsiluni get any love!
January 21, 2011
The Throne Jacket, goodreads, etcetera
THE BEAUTEOUS JACKET See that? That, my dear friends and well wishers and passers-by, is the design for the hardcover jacket and the paperback cover of The Throne of Psyche (Mercer University Press, April 2011.) The smashingly lovely image is by my friend (more about books with him in an upcoming post) Clive Hicks-Jenkins. The designers seem to have manipulated it--the image is flipped, which we
January 17, 2011
Mercer Book Award Winners, 2010
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Precious Wentletrap
Wentletrap for a poem in the last post, by Robbi-request. Slide down for a poem or to comment. See why the Fool's Wentletrap is linked to moons and winding stairs? Zephyr left a link to an x-ray view of the shell in comments on that post. (Image: here. Find your own Precious Wentletrap at Vina Seashells?)
January 14, 2011
"The Book of the Red King" at "Mezzo Cammin"
Eight poems from The Book of the Red King, a sequence I began in mid-October and for which I am still writing new poems, are up at the Mezzo Cammin fifth-anniversary issue. I have never written so many poems so quickly, and I find that these are in some mysterious, subterranean way very close to my heart. Perhaps it is because I am a secretly a courtly Fool . . .Somehow I have a desire for my Red
From the snow cottage
I'm still catching up on straightening my little world in the wake of flood and Christmas and company. More FAFSA and post-flood work and snow-shoveling (when will these flittering, glittering stars give us a rest?) and other things-that-simply-must-be-done lie ahead. Meanwhile I am still writing with much pleasure on my The Book of the Red King. But I need to be reading other manuscripts and
January 10, 2011
David Bee vs. Goliath Pharma
Bees vs. Big Pharma. Petition to ban neonicotinoids, strongly linked to honeybee colony collapse and already banned elsewhere. Avaaz.org - AMERICAN BEE EMERGENCY -- ACT NOW!http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_bees...
January 8, 2011
The Castle of Work
Upcoming: eight poems from the manuscript I began in mid-October, The Book of the Red King, will soon be out in Mezzo Cammin; three more will be out in The Flea; and one in qarrtsiluni, along with a poem called "Wielding the Tree Finder." These are the only poems I've sent out from the manuscript, and they were all accepted at first submission, so I'm pleased about that--I am liking this mad
