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Up a Creek with Brett Nunn

Today I found out I will require bilateral laparoscopic inguinal hernia surgery. Ugh. Not a fan of surgery but quickly becoming a fan of Project Access NW, which has determined that I am eligible for coverage. They have been wonderful, as has every person I have seen...

Dementia Blog – Susan Schultz

Susan Schultz is a poet, critic, publisher and Professor of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her focus is modern and contemporary poetry, American literature, and creative writing. She has lived in Hawaii since 1990. Author of four collections of poems, a...

Jerome Rothenberg Nov 2001 Interview

In the first part of a November 2001 interview, Jerome Rothenberg discussed his early introduction to the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, Lorca’s use of the word duende, a kind of Spanish troll or fairy which Lorca used as a kind of force in which the...

59. Sisuitl (Si’sEyul)

I read this poem Tuesday at the Wedgewood Ale House to good response and so am posting it here. Yes, it’s another in the Haibun de la Serna series, of which I envision 99. It’s also part of the ongoing Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia. Give a listen....