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46th Street Beach After the Season
Something that is no more…
This pretty much sums up every poem I’ve ever written about photography… “It’s true that a photograph is a witness, but a witness of something that is no more.” (Roland Barthes)
Poetry as Prayer
I’ve always been very interested in the idea of writing poetry as an act of prayer or as a spiritual praxis. What is your favorite book, article, quote, or other resource touching on this? Here’s one of my many favorites…
“You can’t write out of intentional consciousness.”
Carolyn Forché in an Image Journal article– “The Unfinished Cathedral” by James K.A. Smith (https://imagejournal.org/article/the-unfinished-cathedral/)
Flowers from our rain garden…
… in a beautiful bowl created by the multi-talented Melissa Ostrom (@melostrom) which she donated in support of @cuvaj_se. Melissa is obviously an artistic double threat as both a potter and a poet.
Bird in snow
Before I was going to be a poet, I was going to be a photographer. I recently found a cache of images from then.
Rejection Slips
I found a stash of rejections slips from my first attempt at being a poet in the mid-80s to early 90s. I’d like to share the ones from @NimrodJournal, @BPJTweets, and The Threepenny Review instead of actually writing tonight. I kind of miss those days. The wait times were longer and simultaneous submissions weren’t the […]
Rita Dove: A moment when things open up from the inside
Conversations with Rita Dove by Earl G. Ingersoll