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We will name none of our children “Irene”
This was the view from the potholes yesterday. That pink building was a quilter’s studio. I say “was” because it’s gone now. In fact, I think this picture captures it being swept away. We are thankful for no loss of life. Our home was undamaged, though we were forced to evacuate for the night due…
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Catherine Sasanov & Pat Schneider (via The Collected Poets Series)
Thursday, July 7, 2011, at 7:00 pm, poets Catherine Sasanov and Pat Schneider will complete the fourth season of the Collected Poets Series. Mocha Maya’s Coffee House, 47 Bridge St, Shelburne Falls, MA. ($2-5 suggested donation) Catherine Sasanov’s latest book of poems, Had Slaves (Sentence Book Award, Firewheel Editions, 2010) was recently named a 2 … Read…
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In which I’m interviewed by Jeannine Hall Gailey:
Some of the books I want to write about in the coming days are The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and Beautiful & Pointless by David Orr and Honeycomb by Carol Frost, a varied list that has, to my mind, a clear through-line. But not today. Today, I give you a link to…
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Chard deNiord & Thomas Lux (via The Collected Poets Series)
Thursday, June 2, 2011, at 7:00 pm, poets Chard deNiord and Thomas Lux will read as part of the fourth season of the Collected Poets Series. Mocha Maya’s Coffee House, 47 Bridge St, Shelburne Falls, MA. ($2-5 suggested donation) Chard deNiord is the author of four books of poetry, The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), Night…
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“Little sister, just remember as you wander through the blue…”*
I’m receiving spam from my mother’s email. Someone’s hacked into my dead mother’s email account and is using it to send spam to me and everyone else in her contact list. There are worse things, I know, but. Gee. Zus. The shock of seeing her name in my inbox. Three times so far today. Tonight…
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D M Gordon & Leslie Harrison (via The Collected Poets Series)
Thursday, May 5, 2011, at 7:00 pm, poets D M Gordon and Leslie Harrison will read as part of the fourth season of the Collected Poets Series. Mocha Maya’s Coffee House, 47 Bridge St, Shelburne Falls, MA. ($2-5 suggested donation) D M Gordon’s poems and stories have been published widely. Prizes include The Betsy Colquitt Award from…
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Centos!
Since writing my Robert Lowell/Elizabeth Bishop centos last year, I’ve had a fondness for the form. Now, Danielle Pafunda is hosting a National Poetry Month Cento Contest! The top post lists the guidelines and has links to the poetry lines that are to be used in crafting your cento. Then the entrants’ centos follow, in…
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“Remembrance–mighty word.”*
I’ve had an interesting enough life, I think. But I’ve never had that impulse before, the almost visceral drive to document my life in prose. The memoir. You could argue that’s what I do here, but I think of this as a selection of very loose-jointed, random snapshots. I get it now. Though it’s not…
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The Big Poetry Giveaway 2011!
* A thousand thanks to Kelli Russell Agodon for once again spearheading that bonanza of poetry goodness, the Big Poetry Giveaway. Be sure to travel to her blog to see the list of all the other participants — generosity abounds! Last year I gave away a couple books and a subscription. This year I will…
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Poem as Eulogy
My siblings generously let me be the one to give Mum’s eulogy at her funeral on Monday, though they quashed my first choice of poem to read. Which is understandable — the sentiments are not exactly ideal for sharing in the midst of a Catholic mass. I ultimately chose “Remember,” by Christina Rossetti, as more…
Marie Gauthier 