Here’s a video of me reading my poem “The Galapagos Tortoise,” which was published in the 2020 issue of RHINO. I made the video in response to a call from RHINO: they had to cancel their release party because of the coronavirus and asked contributors to participate in a virtual launch. I’m joined by one of the giant tortoises from the island of St. Croix.
Enjoy!
I’ve just had a poem published in the magazine Rockvale Review. Here is its opening, and a link to the entire poem.
Mother, I’m here with your painted copy of a Cezanne still life
that hangs over the dry sink you bought
with my father years before
I was born.
I’ve just had a poem published in the magazine Rockvale Review. Here is its opening, and a link to the entire poem.
Begin with light slathering the eel grass
and the horizon, a wide what-if.
I’m sharing a new poem that is now posted on Solstice’s website as part of the celebration of National Poetry Month. My bio there is ancient but the poem is recent. Wishing all of you wellness and wholeness.
During this time of isolation, I’ve become more aware of how the creatures of the earth are interconnected and how we are connected to them. Using the repeated phrase “And I say yes . . .” enables the language of affirmation to pour through.
needs the soil and the soil needs the grass,
the way the candle needs the wick
and the wick needs the candle. Yes
to the way the lion and the buck need
I’m delighted to have a poem in this month’s Threepenny Review. I’d found a young screech owl on the sidewalk a block from my house, its talons sunk, in death, in the nape of a rabbit kit.
Here’s a link to the Threepenny website, and a photo of my poem below:
My blackout poem “To Raid the Necessary” (designed in collaboration with fiber artist Jodi Colella), is based on Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and is one of six winning posters chosen by Mass Poetry. All six poems are now on display at Soofa Kiosks. The posters were initially to be displayed on the MBTA but this agency determined the poems were too political. Altering historical documents by blacking out parts of the text creates a resonance between the original document and newfound material that reflects on poetry and democracy.
