What a great thing to do on a Sunday - day trip to San Juan Island to see an exhibit of the work of legendary...
Ai WeiWei Exhibit on San Juan Island
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523. Body, Speech, Mind
In this poem from the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest the fact I was reading Philip Whalen's biography is reflected...
Ancestry Includes Chiefs
One of the truly remarkable gifts in the information age is the access to ancestral information. Within the last year...
Bernie & Your HN’s Political Compass
For friends not on Facebook, your humble narrator continues to wade through the social media slop so you don't have...
Sam Hamill Interview, Notes on Cascadia 3 (Malpais)
The last Malpais Review is out and like most literary initiatives on this here continent, it went as far as their...
522. More Recreation
Written in the heat of the recent Bernus Interruptus, which I witnessed and which my report of (I think) resulted in...
I Sing the Body Apoplectic (to) Make The Pie Higher
It takes years for most poets to learn a craft and then unlearn certain rules, or learn how to creatively break them...
Upcoming Readings: Sonic Bloom, Port Townsend, Wedgwood
I will be doing readings from American Sentences at two upcoming gigs and one of work completely created for Greg...
Cascadia Poetry Events
There are a few developments with the Make It True anthology and the combination of bioregionalism and poetry. I hope...
David Bowie (1947-2016)
This started out as a Facebook comment, but I have to document some of my thoughts on this day we find out David Bowie...
521. Composed in Solidarity
Since 2004, I've had a little soft spot in my heart for Muslims given that my spiritual practice (the Latihan Kejiwaan...
Greg Bem Reviews American Sentences
I get nervous sending out review copies of my new books. Fortunately, I took Sam Hamill's advice from a few years ago...