Sunday, May 28, 2006
Donald Hall's New Book Reviewed
WHITE APPLES AND THE TASTE OF STONE: SELECTED POEMS 1946-2006 by Donald Hall is reviewed by WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD of the Washington Times [here]
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Waiting
Waiting (draft)
The night molasses air
holds aloft a full moon,
the illumination a brutal truth.
No love note passes.
The moon, holds back her mystical spell;
the barefoot bridesmaid walks on gravel
till the hail dents mark her soles.
Limp bouquets fly in the face
and drop around herto no avail.
Blue satin drapes her shoulders,
gathers at her waist.
The hem a receding hairline.
Still, night after night,
she waits,
she watches,
a moon that never winks.
The night molasses air
holds aloft a full moon,
No love note passes.
The moon, holds back her mystical spell;
the barefoot bridesmaid walks on gravel
till the hail dents mark her soles.
Limp bouquets fly in the face
and drop around her
Blue satin drapes her shoulders,
gathers at her waist.
The hem a receding hairline.
Still, night after night,
she waits,
she watches,
a moon that never winks.
Friday, May 26, 2006
Rockhurst Review
"Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!" ~ John Keats
- Poetry heads over to God's territory- two poetry books reviewed * God's Silence - Poems by Franz Wright -Alfred A. Knopf: 144 pp., $24 and Sinners Welcome - Poems by Mary Karr - HarperCollins: 94 pp., $22.95 [here]
- Judith Bader Jones, A Kansas City writer of both poetry and fiction, reads from her new collection of short stories, published by Sweetgum Press, is called Delta Pearls at 1:30 p.m. June 17, Borders, 9108 Metcalf in Overland Park. Call (660) 429-5773.
- New Letters Weekend Writing Conference: The author of The River of Doubt, Candice Millard will give the keynote address for New Letters’ annual event. Millard speaks the evening of June 23, and the conference continues the 24th and 25th. This is a local (Kansas City area event) Call (816) 235-1168 for details.
- Rockhurst Review - a fine arts journal [Nineteenth Edition] is out. This contains my piece titled, Sport Utility Poem. Some other very outstanding work this edition. Very pleased with it!
Tags: Rockhurst Review Judith Bader Jones New Letters Mary Karr Michael A. Wells Franz Wright Candice Millard
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Trash Day Thursday
(Really it is trash day for me.... No reflection on postings here)I found Ivy's blog post about orphaned poems almost sad... "If I write more poems, then I need to find journals to adopt them, don't I? Otherwise, they get cold." I'm sure we all have some we need to find homes for. So many orphaned... ::sigh::
I see Christine Hamm from this is all your fault has her own cafe press shop [here]
- OMG! too funny - Rejected Marketing Slogans for National Poetry Month. [click here] Credit to Jilly for posting this on her blog.
Man like may like the spicer spin...
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. ~ John Keats
BUSH - COVERING HIS ASS - THE BEST HE KNOWS HOW
Marketplace: Negroponte given power to waive SEC rules
In a most interesting report, a reporter with Marketplace heard on National Public Radio reports on unusual development, this quietly took place this month that could have some very large implications.
On May 5, President Bush has granted his intelligence czar the authority to exempt publicly traded companies from any and all reporting requirements of their financial dealings. That is the same day that Porter Goss stepped as director of the CIA, and six days before USA Today published its story that three major telephone companies had turned over massive amounts of customer calling records to the federal government. Information that the NSA was using to data-mine and look for patterns and, basically, spy on the American people.
What this rule means, is that AT&T and Bell South and Verizon, who have these government contracts — [as it's been reported in the papers ]to sell customer data to the government, they may never have to report that income or how the finances of that program worked. This is scheme that allows them to continue to deny any such activity - legally - unless of course the circumstances are challenged and overturned by the courts. I urge you all to go [here] to listen to the broadcast, or read the transcript [here] and see the documentation [here].
tags:Bush NSA Verizon AT&T domestic spying Bell South
In a most interesting report, a reporter with Marketplace heard on National Public Radio reports on unusual development, this quietly took place this month that could have some very large implications.
On May 5, President Bush has granted his intelligence czar the authority to exempt publicly traded companies from any and all reporting requirements of their financial dealings. That is the same day that Porter Goss stepped as director of the CIA, and six days before USA Today published its story that three major telephone companies had turned over massive amounts of customer calling records to the federal government. Information that the NSA was using to data-mine and look for patterns and, basically, spy on the American people.
What this rule means, is that AT&T and Bell South and Verizon, who have these government contracts — [as it's been reported in the papers ]to sell customer data to the government, they may never have to report that income or how the finances of that program worked. This is scheme that allows them to continue to deny any such activity - legally - unless of course the circumstances are challenged and overturned by the courts. I urge you all to go [here] to listen to the broadcast, or read the transcript [here] and see the documentation [here].
tags:Bush NSA Verizon AT&T domestic spying Bell South
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Rough Draft of poem
A rough draft of a poem I'm working on....
Buildup [working title]
Awaken abortively
By a rain battered pre dawn-
The mind shuffles through
A whole deck of thoughts,
A troubling one
Catching a hangnail
On the gossamer network
Inside my head,
Where scar tissue
Has built up
Over the years.
Buildup [working title]
Awaken abortively
By a rain battered pre dawn-
The mind shuffles through
A whole deck of thoughts,
A troubling one
Catching a hangnail
On the gossamer network
Inside my head,
Where scar tissue
Has built up
Over the years.
tag: Writing and poetry
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