2014 was not an easy year over on Lucile Street. My cat Zappa died March 30. Meredith's beloved Tupelo died on October...
Hillman City Haibun_1-(Dead_Cat_Magnet)
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Police Presuppositions (Poetry in Columbia City)
Georgia McDade has invited me and a few other local poets to read on the subject of police abusing their authority...
FZ (From the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen)
Music has always been a huge part of my life. From a kid who heard my Dad playing records on the hi-fi (Xavier Cugat,...
The Future of Storytelling, Puebla, Mexico
This past August I had the good fortune to attend the 14th Subud World Congress in Puebla, Mexico, or the Congreso...
After The Japanese 13-16
This latest installment of After The Japanese, poems written after the classic Japanese poetry anthology, is below....
Last of the 2014 American Sentences
Tomorrow marks 14 years of a daily writing practice of American Sentences. I started January 1, 2001, and when I get...
Top Ten Posts of 2014
I did this last year, a post of the top ten posts/pages of the year. I excluded American Sentences and all individual...
After The Japanese 9-12
When one writes poetry from the practice of outside, you can go back and look at poems 10 months old and marvel at the...
R.I.P. Ralph Maud (1928-2014)
On December 11, 2014, Cascadia lost one of its most important scholars when Ralph Maud died a couple of weeks short of...
Cuba Libre
I had just dropped off my daughter Ella Roque at her Spanish immersion pre-school and parked in front of my favorite...
After the Japanese 5-8
My hiking partner and I had made it to the end of the Hoh River Trail, 17.5 miles, and had done a silence ritual,...
Sam Hamill & Christopher Yohmei Blasdel N.1.14
On November 1, 2014, the home of my spiritual community was the site of an event that truly illustrates the mission of...