Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Recent Journal Bits
• January 6 - note: I'm still having trouble writing this year correctly.
• January 6 - "what I know of you / fits well in my cupped hand / it's all there is."
• January 7 - " Januarys grace is the slowly rising plum of smoke from the fireplace / chimney against the dark blue sky of a children's picture book."
• January 9 - "What do you suppose / the dead take with them / memories caramelized by years / of turning, sautéed in the juices / thank make up life?"
• January 10 - "Venation Blinds have great dexterity... they align themselves so well / precise as the feet of a marching brand / white spats going up and down / in perfect cadence.
• January 10 - quote: "The late poems are the ones / I turn too first now ... they are made of words that have come the whole way" W.S. Merwin - Worn Words from The shadow of Sirus.
• January 16 - add the word pellucid to my word list - admitting the passage of light, transparent or translucent . Transparently clear in style or meaning.
• January 6 - "what I know of you / fits well in my cupped hand / it's all there is."
• January 7 - " Januarys grace is the slowly rising plum of smoke from the fireplace / chimney against the dark blue sky of a children's picture book."
• January 9 - "What do you suppose / the dead take with them / memories caramelized by years / of turning, sautéed in the juices / thank make up life?"
• January 10 - "Venation Blinds have great dexterity... they align themselves so well / precise as the feet of a marching brand / white spats going up and down / in perfect cadence.
• January 10 - quote: "The late poems are the ones / I turn too first now ... they are made of words that have come the whole way" W.S. Merwin - Worn Words from The shadow of Sirus.
• January 16 - add the word pellucid to my word list - admitting the passage of light, transparent or translucent . Transparently clear in style or meaning.
Unconscious Mutterings Week 364
You say and I think....
1.Weak :: knees
2.Flashy :: bling
3.Sack :: sad sack
4.Business :: listing
5.Purple :: heart
6.Fan :: baseball
7.Airline :: ticket
8.Guide :: TV
9.Lunch :: box
10.Exercise :: aerobic
get your own list at Unconscious Mutterings
1.Weak :: knees
2.Flashy :: bling
3.Sack :: sad sack
4.Business :: listing
5.Purple :: heart
6.Fan :: baseball
7.Airline :: ticket
8.Guide :: TV
9.Lunch :: box
10.Exercise :: aerobic
get your own list at Unconscious Mutterings
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Some cheery news
After a two year absence from New York busses and subway, Poetry in Motion is returning. Poetry in Motion had been in opperation for 15 years and became a model for other such programs in other cities.
For a glimpse of what commuters will see in 2010 - some Emily Dickinson, a 10th century Japanese poem, a 9th century Aztec poem and a "cheeky, chiding poem" by Stevie Smith called Deathbed of a Financier among other works.
Source
For a glimpse of what commuters will see in 2010 - some Emily Dickinson, a 10th century Japanese poem, a 9th century Aztec poem and a "cheeky, chiding poem" by Stevie Smith called Deathbed of a Financier among other works.
Source
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Your three words for 2010?
Last night I did something I’ve been intending to do for some time now. I got comfortable on the bed and pulled out a file folder with some of my poems and began separating them into stacks based on how I thought they might work into a manuscript idea that I have. I found some that I believe will work as they are. Another group that I believe could work but I feel require anything from some minor tweaking to more involved rewrites; however I can still see working. Then there are the rest of them.
I would like to have had more that I thought would be a good fit, but I still have some material that was not printed out in that folder. I have material in a couple of other places, like our desktop that I don’t use for writing any longer and just some hard copies of work that I’m not quite sure where the original files are. Fortunately I’ve gotten better about how I retain my work, but there are things that fall into the hole of historically I’ve not always been so good about it.
I’m not going to get into the nitty-gritty details of what my goal is here, but I did set some general timelines back in September about a manuscript and I am working to stay focused on this project.
Contrary to my norm, I did make some new years resolutions and I am happy to say that at this tinder age of 2010, I’ve stuck to them.
This has nothing to do with my specific resolutions, but I was trying to think if I could select a three year mantra for 2010, what it might be. There were several things that came to my mind, but in the final analysis, I chose these: “Read, write, more.”
What three words define what you wish for in 2010?
I would like to have had more that I thought would be a good fit, but I still have some material that was not printed out in that folder. I have material in a couple of other places, like our desktop that I don’t use for writing any longer and just some hard copies of work that I’m not quite sure where the original files are. Fortunately I’ve gotten better about how I retain my work, but there are things that fall into the hole of historically I’ve not always been so good about it.
I’m not going to get into the nitty-gritty details of what my goal is here, but I did set some general timelines back in September about a manuscript and I am working to stay focused on this project.
Contrary to my norm, I did make some new years resolutions and I am happy to say that at this tinder age of 2010, I’ve stuck to them.
This has nothing to do with my specific resolutions, but I was trying to think if I could select a three year mantra for 2010, what it might be. There were several things that came to my mind, but in the final analysis, I chose these: “Read, write, more.”
What three words define what you wish for in 2010?
Monday, January 11, 2010
Gretchen Rubin: The Happiness Project
Power Money Fame Sex: A User's Guide
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life
Forty Ways to Look at JFK
A Missourian by birth...
Tree Swenson, Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets, announced today that Naomi Shihab Nye and Marie Ponsot have been elected to the Board of Chancellors, the Academy's advisory board of distinguished poets. Nye is a Missourian by birth having been born in born in St. Louis in 1952. She makes her home in Texas now but has been described as a a citizen of the world. Her poetry often crosses borders and fosters understanding. I know little of Marie Ponsot but Nye is truly a wonderful ambassador for poetry everywhere.
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