“This land of jungles and paddy fields
is where Heaven meets Earth.”
— Larry Mitchell, “The Ballad of Vietnam”
I have just finished reading a book about war and survival. Very few poets have written about war first hand. That is not to say there are […]
Gyumri! A city sitting between the Mountains of the Caucuses on one side and the edge of the vast empty Arpacay valley that makes up Eastern Turkey on the other. I loved those low Armenian mountains; that range where Mount Aragats shadows our little, ruined city and further south, beyond our sight lies […]
I need to have more conversations about poetry. Or, rather, I have been enjoying the ones I have had recently so much that I find myself wishing for more. I have a friend currently in a MFA program and we periodically talk about their pros and cons of such programs. A couple […]
I have said bad things about Billy Collins in the past and I need to stop. Actually, I need to apologize to Mr. Collins (at times I wonder if my blog is carefully screened by the Poetry Snark Police, sending whole paragraphs of glib criticism to the respected email addresses of various poets) having […]
Date: September 18, 2006
Time: 4:30 PM
Location: Rm 215/216, The Women’s Center, Kirkhof Center, GVSU, Grand Rapids, MI.
I urge all and every last one of you to take Monday afternoon off and go to this reading! I first came into contact with Ingrid not because of her amazing poetry but because I was looking […]