Even though the clock is ticking down until next year's August Poetry Postcard Fest (Year Ten!), some folks have not...
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George Bowering @ 80
The first Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada turns 80 today. I first met George Bowering at the (sadly now defunct)...
516. Breakfast Special
More Salish art (one of my favorite card images) and a little piece of Wanda Coleman’s fire, in which you don’t...
Barthes on Trump
Give Judd Legum credit for using French Philosopher Roland Barthes (dead since 1980) to better understand the...
Very Serious & Full of Vegetables
I FINALLY finished Crowded by Beauty, the wonderful biography of Philip Whalen. David Schneider brings a Zen...
Gemini GEL, Rouen Cathedral, Seriality
In D.C. to visit my oldest daughter, or "My Kid the Journalist" as I tend to...
27. Hanging Leaves
Am working on a new series of poems, a couple of which I've read out at local open mics. Not ready yet to talk about...
515. Other Demons
In this latest 2015 August Poetry Postcard poem, again a great Kyger quote which makes me think of field poetics, a...
EBSN4 Report – Brussels
I'm back from an epic trip to Brussels, Belgium, where I attended the 4th European Beat Studies Network Conference. I...
American Sentences at Andaluz! Nov 8
Hey, I am re-posting this with a sincere request to you to consider attending this event and hang out after somewhere...
Giverny & Rouen Cathedral
I am honored to have been included in the 4th European Beat Studies Network conference, which is happening now in...
514. Supple in Seattle
More Salish art and a poem resulting from what the postcard fest instructions suggested since year 1, that is...