Come to a unique Institute
I’ve taught each summer for the past ten years at a unique and wonderful Institute in Portland, Oregon. Faculty and participants arrive from around the globe to create a fascinating mix of people, ideas, and passions for three weeks each summer. People come for 1, 2, or all 3 weeks …
Sebastian drops in
And now, something from my writing teacher, the significant Sebastian Matthews, from his recent book of poetry, We Generous. It was the word "recognition" that got me, in many ways. Ancestor Bears have been following me around again. I saw one the other day, across the road, snuffling about in …
Icarus is falling into our poetry party
This is one of my favorite poems, ever, ever. I collect poems about pieces of art (representing in linear and sequential language the spatial experience of a painting), in case you have a few cluttering your desk and want to send them my way. Poets are in the business of …
Rilke joins us, of course
The poetry party continues. Aurora has written a lovely post with all manner of poetry month celebration ideas and includes this quote from Allen Ginsburg: "Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private …
And one from, yes, Billy
And what would National Poetry Month be without my dear, sweet Billy? (you did know it was only a matter of time before he showed up, didn’t you?) Picnic, Lightning It is possible to be struck by a meteor or a single-engine plane while reading in a chair at home. …
Keep reading more poetry
Again, in celebration of National Poetry Month (we love a party!), a favorite from e.e. cummings: [somewhere i have never travelled] somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyondany experience, your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or which i cannot touch because they are …
Read more poetry
April is National Poetry Month. What say we read some poetry this month? I’ll start with a poem, two lines of which are included in my very first post on 37days. I had the pleasure of hearing its author read this aloud to me last Friday evening. There were a …
I need your help, dear reader!
Last night, in a pique of curiosity and admiration (emboldened by attending a poetry reading by Mary Oliver earlier in the evening, no doubt), I emailed Richard Powers, author of The Time of Our Singing, to request a phone interview – that I had a few questions for him. Powers …
Make your list
As I prepare for the creation of a 37days book, a publisher interested in the project suggested that the book become a guidebook of sorts, a map for living, a suggestion I liked. How to make it so? One idea is to make the challenges more concrete, something do-able. As …
Post your shadows
After reading Learn your shadow, the fantastic Marilyn asked if I would create a Flickr group for those interested in posting their shadow portraits. Ask and ye shall receive. Go here to post your shadow portraits. If I haven’t created it correctly, send a large St Bernard with a barrel of …
