The Green Season O sweet morning-- coffee on the patio, the Sunday Times spread between us, red geraniums in the window box, a dog at your feet. Stop, Love. Don't move. Don't even breathe. I wish us fixed this way, cups raised the green season before us. © Donna Hilbert, 2009 & 2011 This poem is used with permission and appears in The Green Season by Donna Hilbert (World Parade Books, 2011) Donna Hilbert was born in the … [Read more...]
Beside the City of Angels: A Long Beach Poetry Festival
A highlight of the recent trip to Long Beach was meeting Donna Hilbert ("Flowers" and"In Quintana Roo"). She teaches weekly poetry workshops and has for years (with many loyal students). When Joan Corwin and I were in Long Beach, we also learned about the latest project Donna and others in the vibrant Long Beach poetry community have been working on: Beside the City of Angels: A Long Beach Poetry Festival, which will be a daylong event Saturday, October 14. It will be held … [Read more...]