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My Reading (and More!) on Sunday, January 27 at West Side Books
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A Blogger’s Notebook 15
Poem Beginning with Two Lines from Montag “Poetrybears repeating”because it bears onand bears upwhat we can’t bearto losebut will—unless I’ve entirelylost my bearings.Read More
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The Earth-Boat Is About to Sail!
Available for Pre-Order until 18 December 2012at Folded Word. Cover art by John C. Ransom. I’m excited to let Perpetual Birders know that the limited first edition of my new chapbook, The Earth-Boat, is now available for pre-order from Folded Word. Customers who pre-order print copies will receive a free eBook edition of the chapbook. Please note that the publisher’s pre-order period will end on 18 December 2012, and copies will ship on 20 December 2012. Print copies ordered after 18 December will be queued for the 2nd printing, which will begin shipping on 15 February 2013.Read More
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A Blogger’s Notebook 14
TO POETS WHO WHINE ABOUTTHE INADEQUACY OF LANGUAGE If you distrust wordsso much, why notbe quiet? Why wastethe sacrificed fleshof trees, or scatter yourpaltry traces acrossour computer screens(their pixels lit by burning400-million-year-old fernsor butchering big riverswith the blades of turbines)?You’d deplete the earthto trumpet your faithlessness? Why not simply learnto paint, or play the flute,or bow in rapt silence overa spinning potter’s wheel?Words don’t serve youbecause you won’t servethem. Therefore,just shut up.Read More
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DiDiodato Unravels Main Threads in Thread of the Real
The first notice of Thread of the Real has appeared in the form of a thoughtful, in-depth reading by Conrad DiDiodato at Word-Dreamer: Poetics.Read More
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Thread of the Real. Really!
Order Directly from Conundrum Press I’m excited to let all you Birders know that my 13th collection of poems, Thread of the Real, is now available for ordering.Read More
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Thread of the Real
Had a “celebratory lunch” today with my publisher, Caleb J. Seeling, owner of Conundrum Press, which is bringing out my 12th collection Thread of the Real.* The book’s designer extraordinaire, Sonya Unrein, joined us. What a pleasure to sit down with such committed and energetic people! Looks like the book will be released in the first full week of May. I imagine it will blink like a prisoner freed from his dungeon, who had forgotten the sky is still there….Read More
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Facebookery
I’ve finally started spiffing up my author page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/jhpoet). All I need is three more people “liking” it to get analytics on the page’s traffic. Not that I’ll know what to do with them. And maybe I don’t really want to know.Read More
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Whale Songs
Below is a reply (albeit written years ago) to this lovely poem by the indefatigable Tom Montag: Blues On the swaying blackbranches of the sea, whale songsbloom: blue, then bluer….Read More