Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat
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 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 …
March 14, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)
Just as we are all avoiding crowds, my new book is out. It’s called Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) and I’ve been writing it …
July 31, 2019 | Filed under: Teaching
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 …
June 7, 2019 | Filed under: Poems
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 …