This past year I joined a game of Telephone! My poet friend Kortney Garrison, who always has the best gems of recommendations, clued me in and I promptly joined. All in all, over a thousand artists across the world used each other’s work as a creative catalyst for a new work, in many different disciplines.Continue reading “Playing Telephone with Nine (or Nine Hundred) Other Artists”
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A Reading from “Like the Light, She Arrives”
In continuing with this small celebration of Bright Inhabited Lives‘ one-year anniversary, I’m reading an excerpt from another prominent series of poems in the book, based on the artwork of Vilhelm Hammershøi. This poem is a connected series of seven haibun poems, all exploring themes of Vilhelm Hammershøi’s interior works. Take a listen here: You canContinue reading “A Reading from “Like the Light, She Arrives””
A Reading from “Blind Girl Reading, by Ejnar Nielsen”
As I celebrate Bright Inhabited Lives‘ one year anniversary, enjoy this reading of one of the poems that launched the collection! The full title of the painting is Blind Woman Reading Braille Volume. You can read more about the artist of this work, Ejnar Nielsen, here. Image credit: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins SchoolContinue reading “A Reading from “Blind Girl Reading, by Ejnar Nielsen””
Happy Birthday to this little book!
Bright Inhabited Lives turned one year old this weekend! Throughout this eventful year, it’s been such a joy to share these words with others in a variety of settings. From contemplative gatherings, to summer evening readings, to writers group meetings, and much more, I’ve delighting in hearing which poems meet each of my readers withContinue reading “Happy Birthday to this little book!”
Bright, Inhabited Lives Now Available!
“Incidental to the evidence That meaning proves Like a dough, That thoughts do reach out From the page And claim us, knead Us into form, rise – An experience of the word So bodily, eyes In theContinue reading “Bright, Inhabited Lives Now Available!”
New Poem at The Ekphrastic Review
Van Gogh Revisits His First Painting as a Ghost I’ve seen this street hundreds of times, sometimes even in my dreams. So what is it about one man, slouching down the canal, the light like dawn, The way the lines are stone and waterskeleton and key? … Read the rest of the poem over at The Ekphrastic Review!
Falling Star, by Romare Bearden
body split down the line of ordinary and catastrophe one basket filled with living and two small cups waiting to be filled (with joy? with sorrow? with delight?)… Read the rest of the poem over at Vita Poetica!
Like The Light, She Arrives
Soon, we become the standing, mind paused with expectation, body alert like a silent watcher of birds, convinced that any moment we will walk through… Read the rest over at The Ekphrastic Review here!
“Blind Girl Reading”: New Ekphrastic Poem
I’m thrilled to see my submission for the Ekphrastic Review’s weekly challenge at the top of the page this week! An experience of the word So bodily, eyes In the meeting Of print and finger, Each word A journey your hand Must travel, send postage… Read the whole poem, and other winning submissions, here.
CHIHULY’S BASKETS
Enjoy this ekphrastic poem responding to the work of a local Northwest glassblower, Dale Chihuly. to resist your capacity to holdinvisible things to grow lucentlose everything even your darkness… Published here by As It Ought To Be.
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