Loma Prieta | Loma Prieta
Mar.25.2013
...from "Ode to Santa Cruz," _New & Selected Poems_. Red Hen Press, 'a sidewalk of broken glass, a street filled with jewels. Loma Prieta, The Earthquake of the Dark Hill, place, this place, always coming back from a disaster. Natural beauty and unnatural events, jazz, blues, canoes, tattoos, I...
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Apr.01.2011
Shortly after the Earthquake and Tsunami hit Japan, once I learned our friends in Japan were safe, I wrote a blog with a poem about our 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, loosely comparing the two events. Mistake! What really happened (from an op-ed):
The earthquake off the coast of northeastern Japan...
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Mar.14.2011
Earthquake Collage appeared Oct. 4, 2009 in Metro Santa Cruz Weekly re: Anniversary of the Oct. 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.
[sorry... may take a moment to load!] The feature begins:
"AS ITS NAME IMPLIES, the following is a collage of impressions, recollections, news items, poetry and facts...
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Aug.25.2009
Working on a sequence of poems about Santa Cruz. New ones plus recycling a few from the past, for example, "Blackbirds Flying Backwards," written at time of the Oct. 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. The following is excerpted from Earthquake Collage, impressions, recollections, news items,...
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Jul.09.2009
July 8-15, Santa Cruz Weekly runs "Love Poem - Ode to Santa Cruz," inspired by Garrison Keillor's recent visit and challenge to locals to come up with a poem that does justice to this amazing place. Here's my little offering...Santa Cruz poet Robert Sward pens an homage to his adopted...
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Apr.16.2009
Following the Oct. 17, 1989 San Francisco Bay Area earthquake, I started writing in rhyme—the stricter the form the better. That’s because I was scared, scared shitless and on behalf of my friends, neighbors and family, I wanted the world to come to order. “Settle down, world, settle down!” Fear...
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