American Haiku Archives
I was back in one of my favorite places today, Sacramento. The California State Library there has an extensive haiku archive that includes visual poetry …
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Knitting with Shelley
There is a principle within/ all sentient beings/not melody alone it is as if proportion of sound/ voice to the sound/ it is as if …
Surprise Valley Writers’ Conference May 31-June 4, 2019
I’ll be back in Modoc County leading a poetry workshop this spring. Looking forward to having some lovely days in Surprise Valley. Barbara and Ray …
Ecopoetics After 3.11
Discussing ecopoetry in the East Bay Hills with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Ryoichi Wago and Ayako Takahashi Ayako and I are working on a volume …
Ryoichi Wago and the Poetics of Catastrophe
In the car, after Jane Hirshfield gave us each a letterpress broadside of her poem, Ayako is explaining to Ryoichi, saying American poets exchange broadsides …
Renshi Collaboration
Starting a new project for the Grace Hudson Museum with Ukiah poets Theresa Whitehall and Armand Brint. Archive letters arrived with these stamps. I don’t …
Mojo Poets at LitCrawl
Baby G’s first trip on the bus, the subway, at the San Francisco Public Library BookMobile for my very quick reading in LitCrawl.
Poems of Resistance and Resiliance
Out now from Sixteen Rivers is a beautiful, mournful anthology on how to live in these times. Murray Silverstein has carefully assembled local poets and …
Sierra Poetry Festival
It was lovely to be back in the foothills for the Sierra Poetry Festival. I read with Indigo Moor, who I’ve known since our Tuesday …
Lunch Poems @ Dokkyo
Each month Dokkyo University holds a noon time poetry reading. I read at Lunch Poems at UC Berkeley last year and this summer I’ll read …