Tag: poetry
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Thanks for the memories, Rejection Edition.
One of the other things I neglect in order to focus on poems is this blog, and blogs in general. Sorry about that. On the up side, however, I wrote a new poem. I have one more small edit to make — which I’ve been thinking about since last night when Lance read it & […]
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Imaginary Time & Poets
My husband has been watching a science program featuring Stephen Hawking on DVD. Funny how, as long as the scientists are speaking, the theories they’re explaining make perfect sense to me, but the second the tv goes silent my understanding evaporates. However, that doesn’t keep me from making free use, and profligate misuse, of them. […]
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The Winners!
Because, wow!, there ended up being so many entrants, my original plan of just putting names in a hat went right out the window. I took one of Kelli’s suggestions and used the True Random Number Generator over at Random.org. The first winner will receive my chapbook, the second Longing Distance by Sarah Hannah, and […]
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Last Day!
How is it possible that tomorrow is May? The days seem to have accelerated, the year nearly half gone! Today is the last day of National Poetry Month, which means it’s the last day to enter the Great Poetry Giveaway, dreamed up by the ever-generous Kelli Russell Agodon. Visit her blog, Book of Kells, to […]
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Paradise Regained
I’ve been using Apples in one configuration or another since 1989, and there’s nothing like a Mac. I’m so appreciative of my friend Lea’s generosity in loaning me a laptop so that I could still get work done, but truly, there’s nothing like a Mac. Budget constraints led me, nervous yet desperate, to eBay for […]
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Technical Difficulties
I’m back on the borrowed computer circuit — my iBook has dug its little chiclet heels in & refuses to run. While I resolve this crisis I won’t be able to update much, if at all. Please, if you haven’t done so already, don’t forget to leave a comment on my Poetry Book Giveaway post […]
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Poetry & Your Friendly Local Cable Show
Mea culpa! I didn’t mean to disappear for a week, and I wish I could say it was because I was at AWP in Denver with so many from the poetry blogosphere, but alas, I was simply BUSY. I had every intention of updating yesterday, but the project I was hoping to post didn’t work […]
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To NaPoWriMo or Not To NaPoWriMo? — That is the Question.
Like most writers I know, I have an abundance of books. Some would say too many, but we all know there’s no such thing. And now, just as I did when Vincent first became mobile, I spend altogether too much time rescuing my books from Aidan. As I skid the wood floors from room to […]
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Dispatches from the Sickhouse
After a remarkably healthy winter our luck ran out: last week Vincent came down with the flu — and believe me when I tell you that this skinny skinny boy really should not do without food for any length of time — and then, as I suppose was inevitable, on Saturday night, Aidan woke up […]
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Cal’s Advice? Read!
From Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell: When Philip Booth askes him to look at his poems, Cal suggests he study perhaps “three poets for a month, maybe copying-out poems” to see what he can use to extend his range: “Empson for intellect. Marianne Moore for observation. Frost for how to get a poem […]
Marie Gauthier 