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Three Million Readers
I’m excited to let you Birders know that a poem of mine, “Winter Sunrise Outside a Café Near Butte, Montana,” just appeared in Ted Kooser’s latest “American Life in Poetry” column. The poem is from Thread of the Real, published last year by Conundrum Press; the poem initially appeared in “The Nebraska Review.” I can’t help but quote from the email I got from the ALP folks last week: “Newspapers carrying the column will download it as a PDF and run it according to their usual print schedules.Read More
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Still Pond on a Still Summer Night
small frog splash—some kind offoot note !Read More
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Marked Men Has Arrived!
Back in February 2012 I noted here that my collection of three long narrative poems, Marked Men, had been accepted by Turning Point. I expected it this fall, but the publisher has taken me by surprise and released it early. Their press release appears below. In case you find the release hard to read, let me post the comments from the back of the book. I’m grateful for the two poets who saw fit to say such good things about it: “Marked Men is a book where truth finally catches up with history.Read More
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Days Without End
On this date in 2005 my Dad passed away after a prolonged decline. The following is from an elegiac series honoring his memory, published in Thread of the Real: Days The backs of my father’s hands,splashed with bruises . . . the dreamhad scrubbed them clean. His heartwas healed, and the raw gravelgrinding down his knee jointshad been washed away. I thoughtthat for the first time in yearshis ears could catch sparrow song,chitter of squirrels, faint breathof a breeze in the shadowy treesaround his garden.Read More
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My Latest KRFC-FM Interview
Thanks to Susie Martinez for getting my latest (June 30, 2013) KRFC-FM Poetry Show interview to me so quickly! Here it is: some bits of gab along with poems from Thread of the Real and The Earth-Boat.Read More
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Marginalia on My Birthday
Roman mosaic of the Greek poet Alkman(2nd Century BCE) After Davenport’s Alkman* June 26, 2013 Nostalgia for the ancientdays which had I lived thenI with my childhood illnesseswould not have lived to see ______________________________* 7 Greeks: Translations by Guy DavenportRead More
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The Earth-Boat Gets Its Own Dock!
Several of you have contacted me about The Earth-Boat, a lovely chapbook from Folded Word, because you couldn’t find it on the publisher’s site. I’ve been directing interested readers to the Folded Word blog, which was the only place the book was listed, but not a few of you found that confusing. That’s why I’m happy to announce that The Earth-Boat now has its own page on Folded Word, where you can order one of the few Signature Edition copies left, one of Green Edition copies, or pre-order the eBook version which should be released in mid-summer.Read More
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Sneaking Through the Gate
Thanks to Scott Wiggerman and Constance Campbell at Dos Gatos Press for letting a couple of my haiku build a nest in their fine anthology Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku and Haiga. They generously offered suggestions for both that improved them immensely, for which I’m grateful.Read More
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A Blogger’s Notebook 16
CONCEPTUAL WRITING In the chipped blue bowl there are snippets of lettuce brown at the edges with an oysterish slime. Tough tomato wedges the color of sun-bleached orange plastic. Deliquescent cucumber slices. Carrot shreds curled and dry as the armpit hair of a circus strongman. Dressing the consistency of industrial sludge. We’re hungry but reluctant and in the end don’t bother taking a bite.Read More