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February 3, 2018
Peeking Cat Poetry–a UK journal–has accepted my poem “Anticipation” for publication in February.
Peeking Cat Poetry–a UK journal–has accepted my poem “Anticipation” for publication in February.
February 1, 2018
Read and Savor
The Kingfisher by Amy Clampitt
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Amy Clampitt’s career as a poet was far too short—just 11 years. But she created a body of work any poet would be proud of. “The Kingfisher” was her amazing debut collection back in 1983 when she was 63 years old, and it stands today was one of the best collections of the second half of the 20th Century. For that matter, it has staying power. As I read and reread it in 2018, I hear echoes of Gerard Manley Hopkins AND Wallace Stevens. Her love of words as music, her encyclopedic incorporation of art, geography, botany, nature, travelogue, biography can make some of her poems dense. But each one bears rereading. Even those that seem most approachable at first have depths of feeling, thinking and experience. Read and savor.
January 29, 2018
A joy to read—and sorrow she will write no more
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
How much I already miss Ursula Le Guin. Her fantasy and sci-fi novels explore what it means to be a human, to be gendered, to live with a natural world instead of against it. This collection of essays from her blog are more personal–and leave me with the illusion that I knew her or at least the wish that she had been my neighbor. Here we watch the natural world together. Here I listen to her thoughts on politics and science vs belief and find myself nodding.
Whether you are already an avid reader of Le Guin or if you are not a fan of sci-fi and fantasy, this collection is thought-provoking, full of heart and joy, and a joy to read.
January 28, 2018
Cats are the soul of a house
“I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.”
– Jean Cocteau
January 25, 2018
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine will publish two of my poems in their Summer issue.
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine will publish two of my poems in their upcoming issue available in March. This is the third time they have accepted my poetry. Thank you SBLAAM.
January 23, 2018
And what a journey!
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin
Mourning Ursula K. Le Guin. Her Left Hand of Darkness blew me away.
Mourning Ursula K. Le Guin. Her Left Hand of Darkness blew me away.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88 – The New York Times
January 21, 2018
My poem “Unforgetting” is live now Heron Tree.
My poem “Unforgetting” is live now Heron Tree.
January 18, 2018
January 16, 2018
Thank you Parentheses Journal for accepting my poem “Shades of Difficulty” for future publication
Thank you Parentheses Journal @ParenthesesArt for accepting my poem “Shades of Difficulty” for future publication,
