Writing Class – The Process of Observation
This short class includes a close reading of Wei Ying-Wu’s poem Heartbreak at Our Old Dwelling, translated by Red Pine (In Such Hard Times, Port …
May 5, 2023 | Filed under: Teaching
This short class includes a close reading of Wei Ying-Wu’s poem Heartbreak at Our Old Dwelling, translated by Red Pine (In Such Hard Times, Port …
April 23, 2021 | Filed under: Craft Talks, Teaching
I gave a Bagley Wright Lecture, From Haiku to Collage: a Body-Based Poetics in Seattle at the Hugo House. I had just hiked Dewa Sanzan …
May 21, 2020 | Filed under: Low Res MFA, Narrative Medicine, Teaching
In our low res MFA program at Dominican University we have an optional track in Narrative Medicine. This is broadly conceived as writing about health …
May 9, 2020 | Filed under: Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat, Writing Prompt
Meditation on Vulnerability by Dean Rader, published in the Harvard Review My son in his sleep slipsinto the little boat of his dream the waves …
May 8, 2020 | Filed under: Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat, Writing Prompt
Cretaceous Moth Trapped in Amber (Lament in Two Voices) By Katrina Vandenberg (From The Alphabet not Unlike the World, Milkweed, 2012) What a shame I have …
May 7, 2020 | Filed under: Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat, Writing Prompt
May 4-11, 2020. Marin Poetry Center Shelter-in-Place Writing Retreat. Craft: How I love a letter. I especially love letters that are also poems. These are formally …
May 6, 2020 | Filed under: Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat, Translation, Writing Prompt
The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon Translated by Ivan Morris (Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1971) … I set about filling the notebooks with odd facts, stories from …
May 5, 2020 | Filed under: Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat, Writing Prompt
Poem on the Occasion of a Weekly Staff Meeting By Matthew Zapruder Across the deep eternal skya thousand changing shapes flit by, i.e. clouds, or …
May 4, 2020 | Filed under: Teaching
A Poem for S. By Jessica Greenbaum Because you used to leaf through the dictionary,Casually, as someone might in a barber shop, andDevotedly, as someone …
Welcome to Marin Poetry Center’s Shelter-in-Place Writing Retreat. Thanks to Rebecca Foust for inviting me to host the retreat this week and the poets who …