At first I didn’t want to make one. Then I did. Then I really didn’t, once I started putting together a script for a video that was to be no more than two minutes long (plus or minus), and trying to figure out what kinds of images, and whether still or moving, and what the voiceover should be. I wrote a bad script, pulling pieces of poems into a narrative whole. It stank. Then I…
I’m happy today to have my poem, “On the Rocks, Cliffs, and Tidepools” up in the current issue of About Place, “a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society.” My poem is in the current issue “The Future of Water,” alongside poems from Susan Terris, Alex Cigale, Alan Kleiman, Ann E. Michael, Jeff Gundy, and too many more to name. I’m happily…
Diane Lockward’s marvelous Blogalicious has an interesting exploration of Diane’s poem about a bumblebee, and how Adele Kenny blogged about it and it found its way into an Italian translation. Diane even has a movie of the poem. I love it when poems transmogrify into other things — videos, illustrations to an illustration, and increasingly little animated movies. Speaking of Adele Kenny, her blog has an intriguing poetry prompt today about towns and home. And…