Poetry
November 6, 2009
- What We Don’t Get My fantasy goes something like this: I enter a poetry contest and win first prize. The famous Duke professor/ poet or the North Carolina Poet Laureate phones me personally to inform me of the good news. He says I wish I had written it myself! I call every person I have ever known, receive a check for a thousand dollars, and my poem appears in a ...
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November 6, 2009
- I live in Philadelphia, a wonderful city, vibrant and diverse, with a downtown that thrives after dark and on weekends, with residential neighborhoods that are cosmopolitan here and provincial there. Arts and culture? We have museums to rival those in D.C. or New York. We have restaurants offering every imaginable cuisine. We have a wonderful symphony orchestra and a magnificent ...
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November 6, 2009
- Champagne and GoldI'm really pleased to say that Pink Champagne and Apple Juice is now available with its brand-new cover at Lulu Books. It should fairly shortly be available at Amazon and other online book stores too, so I'll let you know when that happens.In the meantime, I'm also very happy to say that Salt and Gold - which is a collection of the first forty of my meditation poems - is ...
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November 4, 2009
- At the point in my attempts to write Poetry when all I seem to be doing is revising, revising, revising...and then revising some more...sometimes to the point where I'm losing the original feeling altogether...don't know if that's an indication of something wrong, or if I'm expecting too much, too soon...All I know is that I'm not enjoying it much...BUT, I submitted some of my work to numerous ...
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November 3, 2009
- I'm finally going to see him - tonight, in Durham, NC - a 75-year-old living legend who probably will never tour again(his manager stole his retirement fund - only reason he's touring). I've loved this guy for more than 30 years - I hope this is as great as I think it's going to be...
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November 3, 2009
- I used to write a great deal of poetry, but all that inspiration, that spark that comes to me has of recent years been funneled into fiction. The start of a poem was like a whip crack of inspiration, and then I had to try to find the words to follow it up. I'd chase an idea around and around, hoping to do that first glimmer justice, most often not. But I loved writing poems. I also like ...
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November 2, 2009
- A poem from "The Twilight Zone", my recently-completed full-length manuscript. I plan on posting these on a regular basis - kind of a drip-feed virtual poetry reading. This way, you don't have to leave home and sit in a noisy coffee-house, you don't have to sit through the open-mic and the sales-pitches - and if you don't like it - well, you can get up and leave any time you ...
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November 2, 2009
- What goes great with poetry? Food! If you like both, this is the book for you. Co-edited by Grace Cavalieri and Sabine Pascarelli, The Poet's Cookbook: Recipes from Tuscany contains poems by 28 poets and a generous number of recipes from the editors' own kitchens. The recipes are for dishes that will satisfy the most discriminating palate but also fit into the busy schedule of today's cook. ...
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November 2, 2009
November 1, 2009
- A poem from "The Twilight Zone", my recently-completed full-length manuscript. I plan on posting these on a regular basis - kind of a drip-feed virtual poetry reading. This way, you don't have to leave home and sit in a noisy coffee-house, you don't have to sit through the open-mic and the sales-pitches - and if you don't like it - well, you can get up and leave any time you like ...
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