This is the first of my poems written in Mexico for the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest. For more details on all the...
482. Corset Warrior Armor
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Postcards From the Wilderness
I got back yesterday from a short (annual) backpacking trip to the Olympic National Wilderness. I have tried each year...
481. Dispatch From the Fringe
This is the second of two intentional collage poems I wrote during the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest. (More on all...
480. More Dead Air
Inspiration for this poem came, in part, from a dream.
479. Girl w/ the Green Hair
Subud LGBTQ Youth Movement
One of the most memorable events at the recent 14th Subud World Congress in Puebla, Mexico, was a meeting centered...
478. Hipster Cancer
477. Still Echoing (For Lennie Tristano)
I've blogged about the inspiration for this poem before but here is the text and postcard image and below find the...
Fighting Coal Trains with Totem Poles (Jewell James)
Today I had the honor of interviewing Jewell James of the Lummi Tribe about his effort to create awareness and...
Ontological Kinesiology in Puebla
It was quite a melange of cultures in Puebla during the 14th Subud World Congress August 1-17, 2014. (See my previous...
476. Logic of Ordnance
This poem continues from the last postcard poem and Levertov's notion of the acts that serve as counterstrokes to the...
475. Counterstroke
As with all 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest poems, this one uses Levertov again as the source of its epigraph and the...