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May.22.2013
My poem "Form/Formless" appears on JoAnne Growney's blog, Intersections — Poetry with Mathematics: http://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2013/05/shifting-patterns.html
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May.11.2013
It takes one breath to forget where your’e at
It takes two steps to figure it out
What’s gone wrong
What’s gone right
What’s to care
Where is anywhere
Bee’s swarm overhead
Bumbling
Bee’s
Retroactive
I’m not scared
Don’t care
I rely on still body
My still body repair
One breath determines I am...
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Apr.14.2013
April 14
Who to Ask
“You ask good questions and you ask the right people,” said my sponsor.
“I ask questions because I need answers,” my reply.
“Do you know how many people need answers and never ask?” she quipped.
“I ask my friends, no stroke of genius...
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Mar.26.2013
Occasionally I like to dabble in poetry. I love to play with the words, move them around, and then sit back, look at the finished product and realize how really bad I am at writing poetry. I also don't really like to read it.
The other day I was sitting around the house...
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Mar.18.2013
Self-photographed portrait of Dublin-based artist Jaanika Talts.
Consider Jaanika Talts of Dublin, Ireland, one of those contemporary visual artists empowered by an instinct for classic literary style. As she puts it, “I mostly paint when I feel like I need to write a book (and it...
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Dec.19.2012
It has to be really bad, howler-bad! My undergraduate poetry teacher, XJ Kennedy, used to spend one class period at the end of term reading bad poetry to us. He would carry a basket marked "Cucumbers" filled with terrible poems, and would regale us with the...
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Dec.18.2012
In 2009, I wrote to some of my friends who are famous poets, and asked about blurbs for Packing Light: New and Selected Poems, a collection of more than 30 years of poetry (Black Widow Press.) A few writers said, "I don't do blurbs. It's my policy."
I asked Yusef Komunyakaa for a...
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Oct.22.2012
President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney greet audience at presidential debate. (photo by Xhang Junxinhua, Zuma Press)
“I really think that one of the profound decisions the American ...
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Oct.10.2012
Marked by canals completed in the 1600’s to bring commerce from the Mediterranean into the south of France, we arrive into the seaport of Sète to find jousting by gondola, a sport that dates to at least the 12th Century. Spectators line the canal and hang from the closest bridge as announcers...
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Oct.04.2012
Looking for a refreshing lift? Try these three latest sound poems from southern France:
http://redroom.com/member/jane-p-perry/media/audio/toulouse-street-soundz
http://redroom.com/member/jane-p-perry/media/audio/carrousel
http://redroom.com/member/jane-p-perry/media/audio/lamb-surround
and...
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