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All Souls.
Since we watched the first two seasons of the BBC series “Primeval” on DVD, the exclamation, “Oy! You!” has become a permanant addition to my lexicon. I’d bet my books that not a single episode passes without the cute blonde zoologist, Abby, shouting this at least once. It’s very endearing. (Early episodes also inevitably included…
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Magma‘s “Mistakes Poets Make”.
My laptop is in the shop yet again. Possibly this was the last gasp of the beleaguered motherboard — I feel its pain, deeply — so I am not only without a draft this week — which is fine, because when I include the dragonfly challenge poem (a challenge I won, by the bye!), I’ve…
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Rainer Maria Rilke & Edward Snow.
In my mid-twenties, I picked up a hardcover poetry book from a sale table in Media Play. Anyone remember that store? Looking back now, it’s a minor miracle, that find, their book selections were so abysmal. The book: Uncollected Poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow (North Point Press, 1996). I had read…
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DZANC Creative Writing Sessions.
A while back, I mentioned this great new program that DZANC Books is running, the DZANC Creative Writing Sessions (DCWS). I have since tried it out, and I simply can’t say enough good things about it. The DCWS “allows writers to work one-on-one with published authors and editors to shape their short story/novel/poem/etc.” For less…
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Gratuitous Cuteness in Service of Poetry.
The pre-sale for my chapbook ends in a couple days; the size of my print run is determined by the number of books sold during this time. So if you were planning on buying a copy anyway, and have been procrastinating, now is the time. Just click on the cover at the top left of…
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Brave New World.
When the bookstore closed, I didn’t just lose an income. I lost the place where passionate conversations about books are conducted as a matter of course, as well as daily interaction with the people having those conversations, with me & around me, both fellow staff & customers. Being a part of the buzz. I assumed…
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Fuzzy Math: The Recession & Poetry.
NPR did a short report on Friday’s Morning Edition called “Already Poor, Poets Don’t Much Mind the Recession.” It’s charming, ends with some terrific “recession haikus”, but it’s breathtaking how badly it misses the point. Yes, yes, we all know there’s no money in poetry. But the funds to support the poet in her writing…
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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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Home again, home again, jiggity-jig!
All in all, a nice break from work, but I could really use a break from my child. Especially between the hours of 7 and 10pm. We’re in the process of moving from the 3rd floor to a larger apartment on the 2nd floor, hooray!, but the resulting chaos is wreaking havoc on my mental…
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Over the Rainbow is another Rainbow.
Do rainbows have echoes? Just as the sun was setting tonight we saw this out our window. Unfortunately, by the time I got the camera it was already beginning to fade, but can you see the second rainbow, just outside the first? Today was the first day of my vacation. On Monday, after a prenatal…
Marie Gauthier 