A year comes to a close. We may want to take assessment. One of my favorite writing prompts is making a list of 100 blessings. in 2019, it’s easy to have a grim viewpoint. While we each figure out for ourselves what is within our hands and our will to work for change let’s start this week with remembering what we each has that gives us strength and enables us to move toward those goals.…
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Continue readingIt’s always a pleasure and enriching experience to discover an unsung multi-talented “creative.”
Continue readingIn my new collection (several of the poems have gone into journals, although the majority are unpublished) the theme of praying came up. It wasn’t intentional but in our society, most of us send up solicitations via in our heads, meditations, smoke, temples and teepee meetings. In these violent and merciless times, at the end of the day or to start a day, for many, I imagine, it’s what gives strength. I’ll be signing books…
Continue readingSo, a handful of the new poems in MY BOOK OF THE DEAD are in Spanish. Here is an excerpt from one, published, citation below. Algo de ti [An Ekphrastic Exercise] Algo de ti me recuerda a casa; no la de hoy, la de otros tiempos– Las tortillas de la abuela sobre su comal ardiente; el perfume de la bugambilia en el jardín. Tus pestañas estrelladas– de niñez como las estrellas mismas que contemplaba yo,…
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