Month: February 2009
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The bells are ringing…
I love Gene Kelly. I have absolutely everything he’s ever done on VHS, even the really obscure stuff, some where he doesn’t dance, is only the host/narrator, like the video of a production of “Swan Lake”. Did you know he was in an animated musical version of “Jack and the Beanstalk”? Not great, but if…
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Ode to Rejection.
Thanks everyone for all your good wishes. Any prize in any year is a tremendous event to me, but this prize, this year, well, let’s just say the timing is impeccable. *** I admire this poem to no end. Haven’t we all lived this, in some fashion? And doesn’t it just capture how absurd the…
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Good days are very, very good.
And a sweet week it is! Not only are my mum and sister visiting, and not only did I bake a splendiferous second cake today, but great poetry news abounds: I’m one of the lucky recipients of a 2008 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize! This is a wonderfully generous fund, and I’m in great company…
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Milestones.
Vincent turned three on Saturday, so I baked him a cake. From scratch. You’ll note I have not posted a picture of said cake. Oh, it tasted quite wonderful, actually, chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, and Vincent adored it. Which was a big relief, because it looked like crap. I wish I was joking. Because…
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Collected Poets Series, Feb. Edition.
The next installment of the Collected Poets Series is this Thursday, at 7:30 pm. This month we’re so pleased to present Diane Lockward and Mary Clare Powell. Diane Lockward is the author of What Feeds Us (Wind Publications, 2006), which was awarded the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Eve’s…
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For the Squirrels:
A Fable, by Karin Gottshall There was a girl who set out with a tiger on a long journey. She’d never before left her home but he came to her with his startled eyes and she left the dishes drying on the wooden rack, the linens folded in the closet, left her flowered dresses and…
Marie Gauthier 