When we read Solace in So Many Words on December 11, 2011 at Woman Made Gallery, we were recorded for the Chicago Amplified series and our reading is now up at the WBEZ site for your listening pleasure. You will hear Nina Corwin, me, Kathleen Kirk, Pamela Miller, Joan Corwin, Kathleene Donahoo, Carol Kanter, D. J. Lachance, J. Scott Smith. In addition to works by the contributors present, we also read the work of Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Jodi Kanter, Jan Bottiglieri, … [Read more...]
Sky in winter, #2
About Face
I have been meaning to write a blog about Facebook for quite some time now, especially after I read Shawn Misener’s funny poem (see guest blog). I never thought I would be a booster for FB, but I am. Before I had FB I couldn’t imagine what I would post on FB, but I have found that I like having an outlet, a little place to share what I have found interesting. Posting on FB is easy, easier than blogging, that’s for sure. Blogging you have to write in sentences, maybe … [Read more...]
Dear Facebook by Shawn Misener
Dear Facebook: at this point you seem futile I feel guilty when I forgo breakfast to read your wall I feel guilty when I clean house and delete people I thought I once knew in high school I feel guilty when I write a poem and use you just to get it out to other guilty writers Oh poor Facebook: you’re an old used-up lover My wife glares at me when I ignore … [Read more...]
Rosemarie Rowley
"To match the 'is' and the 'ought' is one of the great philosophical conundrums, but it is the most urgent questions poets, and all of humanity on whose behalf they speak, are having to face today." From her essay "Embodiment and Poetry" in Poetry Ireland News, January/February 2012 … [Read more...]
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