tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102385812024-03-07T00:29:04.376-08:00The Virtual WorldPoetry, the imagination, and the creative life.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.comBlogger1844125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-80460687299009317992013-06-02T19:07:00.000-07:002013-06-02T19:07:35.891-07:00Fairyland, a memoirFascinating story on NPR today, about a woman's memoir of being raised by a single gay father, Steve Abbott, who was a poet and part of the San Franciso renaissance, (as well as a founding editor of Poetry Flash, teacher at Naropa, etc), in the 70's-80's in Haight Ashberry. It is a really touching story, including his death from AIDS in 1992. She has a website commemorating his life and work, Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-8963019303515167742013-05-27T08:09:00.002-07:002013-05-27T08:09:47.927-07:00Libera-cheeze
Watched Behind the Candelabra on HBO last night with Dean. I was really looking forward to this movie, especially with all the top actors involved, Matt Damon playing the young lover Scott Thorson (from whose POV the story is told), Michael Douglas playing Liberace, Debbie Reynolds as his mother, Rob Lowe as their very stoned plastic surgeon, Dan Akroyd as the manager, Scott Bakula as the Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-35632466570339068872013-05-05T09:32:00.000-07:002013-05-05T09:34:01.025-07:00I love this poem from the current issue of Poetry. The "boom" is so understated, and it all takes on a new urgency with the recent Marathon Bombing in Boston.
Bye-bye
BY DEREK SHEFFIELD
The animal of winter is dying,
its white body everywhere
in collapse and stabbed at
by straws of light, a leaving
to believe in as the air
slowly fills with darkness
and water drains Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-18446287799960364292013-04-30T16:54:00.002-07:002013-04-30T16:54:12.134-07:00I Could Pee on This???
A Cartoon Tribute To Cats, And The Poets Who Loved Them
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Tuesday marks the close of Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-86360293528089675412013-04-14T09:18:00.001-07:002013-04-14T09:18:49.307-07:00Fun "Mad Libs" poem from Ben Lerner, up at he PoFo website:
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Mad Lib Elegy
BY BEN LERNER
There are starving children left on your plate.
There are injuries without brains.
Migrant workers spend 23 hours a day
removing tiny seeds from mixtures
they Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-74540805346865930072013-04-07T20:43:00.004-07:002013-04-07T20:46:24.196-07:00Macklemore-Lewis : Can't Hold Ushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgjwAZ9TR3U&feature=youtube_gdata_playerPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-13598872018139831942013-03-29T06:56:00.002-07:002013-03-29T06:56:55.269-07:00
EAT, NEWS
Third Annual “Plate of Nations” Celebrates Global Cuisine in Rainier Valley
Posted on March 24, 2013 by Editor
RAINIER VALLEY – Attention local foodies!
Hankering for simmering Somali goat stew or Lao papaya salad with Blue Crab? What about Vietnamese Claypot fish and Ethiopian dry-cooked lamb? Or how about Okonomiyaki Japanese cabbage pancakes with hazelnut risotto cakesPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-60930071213467742732013-03-19T10:23:00.001-07:002013-03-19T10:24:18.958-07:00
"The Most Exciting Thing To Do With Your Head"
A great essay "interview" by Sam Anderson with the amazing Anne Carson in the New York Times Magazine. I think you can check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/magazine/the-inscrutable-brilliance-of-anne-carson.html?ref=magazine&_r=0
I'm really looking forward to her new book, Red Doc>
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Also -- I love this poem by Dana LevinPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-28089670814195385532013-03-14T11:42:00.000-07:002013-03-14T15:47:46.695-07:00I Just Want the World to SeeGreat article from Michael Moore, about Sandy Hook (and likening it to Emmett Till, the holocaust, Mai lai etc) and how we all really need to be made to see the horror of it, if we are going to change anything, and break the stranglehold the NRA has.
Check it out here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/newtown-gun-control_b_2866126.html
a couple quotes:
Emmett Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-33007520821206538972013-03-04T19:56:00.002-08:002013-03-04T19:56:39.031-08:00Looks like another CCP poets wins the Kingsley Tufts. Congrats!!
Poet Marianne Boruch (Claremont Graduate University)
By Carolyn Kellogg
March 4, 2013, 10:00 a.m.
Claremont Graduate University announced Monday that the winner of its 2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is Marianne Boruch. Boruch will be awarded $100,000 for her collection "The Book of Hours," published by Copper Canyon Press.
The Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-45718748612832441842013-02-19T07:46:00.001-08:002013-02-19T14:22:46.971-08:00Portraits by Mark Irwin : American Life in Poetry
Good poem from Mark Irwin. I totally relate. (Now, imagine the "visiting" mother in the poem has actually passed away years ago . . . and then re-read it . . .)
Portraits
Mother came to visit today. We
hadn’t seen each other in years. Why didn’t
you call? I asked. Your windows are filthy, she said. I know,
I know. It’s from the dust and rain. She stood outside.
I stood in, Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-44092121883715048652013-02-14T08:29:00.002-08:002013-02-19T07:40:21.137-08:00Love this poem from Writer's Almanac a few days ago.
The February Bee
The bumblebee crept out on the stone steps.
No roses. Nothing to
gather.
Nothing but itself, the cold air,
and the spring light.
It
rubbed its legs together
as if it wished to start a fire
and wear its
warmth.
Under its smart yellow bands
the black body shone like patent
leather.
It groomed itself, like a pilot
Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-76740220324583668152013-01-21T09:37:00.002-08:002013-01-21T09:48:41.179-08:00Bloom is Fresh!
Received my copy of Bloom in the mail the other day. I love the cover, with the flag-like red and white stripes (or are they prison bars?) separating the Mexican and American young men (very apropos of our current political scene). And I am really happy with how my poems turned out "The Closing of the Liberace Museum," and "Cosmic Forces Brought Us Together." Thank you Bloom! Other poets in Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-13071647285917232022013-01-10T16:34:00.002-08:002013-01-10T16:37:27.096-08:00Richard Blanco Named Inaugural Poetfrom Huff Post:
"At 44, Blanco is also the youngest-ever Inaugural poet and the first Hispanic and LGBT person to recite a poem at the swearing-in ceremony.
"I’m beside myself, bestowed with this great honor, brimming over with excitement, awe, and gratitude,” Blanco said in a press release. “In many ways, this is the very ‘stuff’ of the American Dream, which underlies so much of my work and myPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-67343492805730188772013-01-06T08:32:00.001-08:002013-01-06T08:36:06.451-08:00Bishop Boring?Safer than Ambien? An interesting take on Bishop. I admire it when someone is willing to take on a sacred cow. Check it out here at poetry foundation.
"Maybe there are arterial poets, who flush oxygen into the art, and venous poets who bear tired blood back to the heart.
Bishop is a venous poet."Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-75592903820101624942012-12-22T09:58:00.002-08:002012-12-23T13:25:51.933-08:00Some recent poetryDean and I had a lovely 3 wk break in sunny Mexico recently, and I was able to catch up on my reading. In addition to the latest Jo Nesbo "Harry Hole" crime thriller, The Phantom, several recent books of poetry caught my eye:
Touch, by Henri Cole. The book has three sections, and the poems are mostly all loose sonnets (14 lines, but no rhyme scheme or strict meter). The first Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-89990596477924853552012-12-11T09:44:00.000-08:002012-12-11T09:44:05.807-08:00Copper Canyon 40th Anniversary!
For You & Everything Alive Inside of You: Readings by Copper
Canyon Press Poets James Arthur, Mattew Dickman, Ed Skoog and Friends
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Friday, December 14,
2012 - 7:00pm
Featuring: Holiday book sale! Poetry reading!
Behind-the-scenes stories from the Copper Canyon Press! Silent auction!
More!
Who am I writing for?
For you and
Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-9929085607399783692012-12-09T12:46:00.001-08:002012-12-09T12:46:37.046-08:00Southeast Seattle, We're Covered!Southeast Seattle, We're Covered!
I love living in Southeast Seattle -- diversity, community, eclectic restaurants, light rail -- It's getting better all the time.
Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-81032164848571255272012-12-06T08:27:00.004-08:002012-12-06T08:28:21.090-08:00Going to the Chapel?
Today, December 6th, is the first day same sex marriage licenses can be granted in Washington state! By coincidence, it also happens to be Dean's and my 26th anniversary. We are in Mexico at the moment, so will have to celebrate from afar this very big step (one of many to come) in the expansion of human rights and social justice. Plus it is just so romantic, isn't it.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-5869196184306383132012-11-16T14:55:00.004-08:002012-11-16T14:56:00.535-08:00What fiscal cliff?from the wonderful folks at MoveOn:
5-Point Guide To The Fiscal Showdown
The "Fiscal Cliff" Is A Myth. As Paul Krugman put it, "The looming prospect of spending cuts and tax increases isn't a fiscal crisis. It is, instead, a political crisis brought on by the G.O.P.'s attempt to take the economy hostage."1 Republicans are manufacturing this crisis to pressure Democrats to extendPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-17265121006029250052012-11-13T15:47:00.000-08:002012-11-13T15:47:05.930-08:00Gay Marriage and Pot pass in WAI love this cartoon. It really says it all.
Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-15954513483017234482012-11-03T07:21:00.002-07:002012-11-03T13:08:08.295-07:004 More Days, 4 More Years!
This election is so important. It's all about moving FORWARD, not backward.
And in WA State, can you believe we will probably legalize pot, approve gay marriage, pass charter school, and elect a Republican governor. Go figure!
Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-4759740165802979492012-10-30T07:19:00.002-07:002012-10-30T07:19:22.281-07:00from today's Poem a Day, how apropos . . .
The Hurricane
by William Carlos Williams
The tree lay down
on the garage roof
and stretched, You
have your heaven,
it said, go to it.
Reprinted from The Collected Poems: Vol. II, 1939-1962. Copyright © 1944 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Used with permission of New Directions PublishingPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-366587046790082812012-10-28T16:35:00.002-07:002012-10-28T16:39:35.763-07:00The Things They GoogledI just loved reading this essay by Marion Winik in the latest issue of Utne Reader, reprinted from The Sun (and, it looks like, an earlier version appearing in the Baltimore Fishbowl -- this essay has legs!). I love all the places it goes. Though the version from The Sun ends a bit differently (and better-ly) than the one below. It's really a prose poem, isn't it?
Enjoy!
The Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-48647474695098440102012-10-20T07:29:00.000-07:002012-10-20T07:31:00.871-07:00Four More Years!The home stretch -- and where we stand now.
Get out and VOTE! (map courtesy of Real Clear Politics)
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