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Two Upcoming Readings and a Workshop
Just thought I’d let you know I have a reading and workshop coming up on Saturday, September 20, at the Columbine Poetry Festival, hosted by the Writers Studio at Arapahoe Community College. You can find more details here. Swing by if you’re of a mind to and please do let any friends and students who might be interested know about the Festival. Also, if you happen to be in Taos on Saturday, October 11, I’ll be reading with a whole bunch of terrific poets at the RANE Gallery, in conjunction with the Taos Fall Art Festival.Read More
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Refreshed Web Site
I’ve been silent here for a while but not because I’ve been idle. I’ve been busily working to update my Web site (jhwriter.com) with a new look and lots of new content. Give it a spin! And please let me know, either here or there, what you think about it.Read More
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A Blogger’s Notebook 3
KEATS’S URN: A MARGINAL NOTEThe well wrought door clicks shut.The well wrought poemsprings open.Read More
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A Comment on “Rupture”
I just posted the below “prose poem” (or whatever) in response to Linh Dinh’s poem Rupture, for what it (my piece, I mean)’s worth…. THE INTRODUCTION The “I” in the next poem is not me. It is a rhetorical device, a psychological-being-state marker designed to make you feel comfortable as the poem progresses. Of course, the poem does not progress: “progress” is a rhetorical term designed to make you feel comfortable with the sense of alienation the next poem means to produce.Read More
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A Blogger’s Notebook 2
THE THINGS THAT CARRIED THEM Mother.Cradle. Basinette. Crib.Shoulders. Snugli. Stroller. Car seat.Pull sled. Saucer. Double-bladed ice skates.Tricycle. Pedal car. Roller skates. Scooter.Training-wheel bicycle. Skateboard. Ten speed.Monkey bars. Merry-go-round. Swing set. Slide. Cottonwood treehouse. Willow-branch swing.Bumper car. Paddle boat. Ferris wheel. Flying Eagle.Carousel. Roller coaster. Tilt-a-Whirl. Scrambler.Rubber raft. Rowboat. Aluminum canoe.Skateboard. Ten speed. Snowboard. Skis.Mini bike. City bus. Daddy’s car. Beater car.Chevrolet. Volkwagen. Datsun. Subaru.SUV. ATV. Crotch Rocket. Chopper.Sailboat. Bass boat. Bowrider. Jet Ski.Parasail. Parachute. Hot air balloon.Helicopter. Gulfstream. Seven-forty-seven.Booster rocket. Space Shuttle. SpaceShipOne.U2. F-15. B-1B. C-130.Stretcher. Gurney. Wheelchair. Crutches.Stretcher. Gurney. Body bag. Coffin.Coffin. Coffin. Coffin.Earth.Read More
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A Blogger’s Notebook 1
WHY I SHOULD NEVER DRINK Last night I fumbled for my lovepoem’s bra-latch while kissingeach feminine rhyme, each enjambedsyllable drenched in my whiskied breath,when suddenly my nightmare zipperpopped, and what should pokeout but a rifle barrel? Somethinghigh caliber—something automatic.Just then the title of my next red-facedrant came to me: “Power Politicsand the Death of Pleasure.”Read More
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A Plum in the Fire…
What are we going to do with Jim Ciletti? In his new collection of poems, Sunfire, he writes in an almost old-fashioned way—that is, with emotion. Naked emotion. He can’t put pen to paper unless something, as Auntie Emily would say, has taken the top of his head off. This can make for some sloppy verse—though almost always sloppy in a good way, like eating a big slice of watermelon bare-handed.Read More
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The Tao of Investing
The Dow that can be gamedis not the eternal Dow.The game that’s lost or wonis not the eternal Game.Read More