Month: March 2009
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Collected Poets Series, NPM Ed.
The Collected Poets Series is honored to host four superb poets to celebrate National Poetry Month. On Sunday, March 29th, at 7:30 pm, a National Poetry Month Primer with prizewinning poets Martha Collins, author of five collections of poetry including Blue Front, and Lynne Thompson, author of the poetry collection Beg No Pardon, will read […]
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Nat’l Poetry Month Books.
Ann & Michael over at the Books on the Nightstand blog have a special podcast up in honor of National Poetry Month. The big feature is an interview with poet/bookseller Michael Schiavo. But toward the end I have contributed a recommendation for Catherine Bowman’s The Plath Cabinet. Give a listen if you have time. Thank […]
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Beginnings.
As I mentally gird up for NaPoWriMo, I’ve been resisting poem prompts: gathering them, the idea of using them. But if I’m being realistic, I’m going to run out of ideas awfully fast in the course of writing a poem a day — I’ll need some help. I don’t know why I’m reluctant to use […]
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Countdown to NaPoWriMo.
March is now more than halfway through — NaPoWriMo will be here in a mere 13 days! I’m a little light-headed just thinking about it. Last year, with one child & a full-time job, I managed 12 days / 12 poems before I petered out. Of those 12 poems, 11 were keepers (and 10 will […]
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Happy Spring Song!
Because it was a beautiful day, because the long nights are passed, because: “Little Bird” by Jonatha Brooke:
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On Titling a Poem.
There was a discussion recently on the Wom-Po listserv about titling a poem, the different rationales and uses for a title. In the course of the discussion, someone recommended the book, The Title to the Poem, by Anne Ferry. Having a bit of book money again thanks to the Dorothy Prize (not that the check […]
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Only open arms will do.
I love my husband. Let me state that right off. But he’s frighteningly up to date when it comes to tragic stories, and has this habit of broadcasting horrifying news bits that he’s read online. For instance, shortly after Vincent fell out the window last summer, he told me about a 9 month old in […]
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Short newsy post ending with a Spontaneous Vision of Cuteness.
The CPS reading last night with Nikky Finney, Tara Betts, and the ladies of the Holyoke Care Center was phenomenal! The energy & passion in that room was just amazing, and, as Tara & Nikky both noted, it was like a continuum, the poetry torch passed down from Nikky to Tara to the talented teen […]
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Collected Poets Series, March Ed.
This Thursday, March 5, 2009, at 7:30 p.m, the Collected Poets Series is sponsoring a benefit for the Holyoke Care Center’s Teen Mother Education and Support Program. The teenagers will be reading their poetry with the poet activist Nikky Finney and the talented performance poet advocate from NYC, Tara Betts. Nikky Finney was born in […]
Marie Gauthier 