Solace in a Book

This, that, and the other

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Happy spring, happy Poetry Month, happy everything. A post on Harriet’s poetry blog on the Poetry Foundation site has been circulating through the waves of the Internet. It’s the one written recently by Camille Rankin and titled "Do What You Do, Love What You Love.” The post talks about how there is no money in poetry and how most poets have to have another kind of work for income.  But as Camille Rankine works out her logic on the value and poetry and the value of … [Read more...]

April 1: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Daffodil

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It's April Fools Day (so beware) and it's the first day of Poetry Month. To commemorate the two, I have mashed up two well-known poems (William Wordworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and Wallace Steven's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) with some of my own words to create a daffy poem. Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Daffodil I After the gray snow melts, The only moving thing: A host of daffodils.   II I was of two minds, Wandering … [Read more...]

Glimpse of Solace: Lisa Comperry

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Big thanks and big welcome to Lisa Comperry for sharing her photos with us. I asked her for a bio and here’s her reply: “I work as a critical care / trauma nurse in the Texas Medical Center in downtown Houston. For me it is a necessity to find a good balance between work and relaxation. Photography is a favorite hobby of mine. Photography relaxes and distracts me. Currently, all of the images I have on display were shot very close to my home here in the Bay Area. I love … [Read more...]