Archive for the 'Writing Poetry' Category

a duduk and his boy

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

fizzle gaily, dire
reed answering cackling grass
flower shattered ears

When I returned from Armenia in the mid-1990s I brought with me a duduk (Դուդուկ in Armenian), a droning double reed woodwind I am immensely fond of though I am a poor, poor player. I bring all this up because I have been experimenting of late with a story rooting in the 1915 Armenian Genocide and I want to tell it using a style of art called fumetti (or photo novella). The comic panels I present here would be a sampling of what I want to attempt, using actual photos modified into a more illustrative style. It will be an experiment in a new style of art for me, regardless.

h3r kind — an anne sexton poem you can dance to

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

shelley’s show

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

poem

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

dry storm, tempestad en seco

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

mind mangle is

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

i am so proud, so proud!

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

THIS IS IT — PRO CHOICE AMERICA STAND UP & VOTE!

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

as votes california votes our nation

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

babylon crashing: fund raiser for gyumri orphanage [2]

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

with each low moan

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

all that binds

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

the swallow at the bottom of the water

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Part of: RUSSIA & GEORGIA at WAR! Aug. 9, 2008

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

save lena from the oil bomb!

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

gepetto’s despair

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

huzzah for the Monolators & arbor day[!]

Monday, May 5th, 2008

The Last Himeyuri, ひめゆり — an introduction (of sorts)

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

the smoking poet

Monday, March 10th, 2008

red lamb [live]

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

nessun dorma

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

the concelebratory shoehorn review

Friday, June 1st, 2007

ancient chinese poetry and brecht’s 5 difficulties

Monday, April 16th, 2007

mahmud darwish

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

wayfaring: march 6 — 11, 2007

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

takiyasha in love

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

the monolators: detroit

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

a pretty piece of flesh, i

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

ghost girl — 1

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

congo in oils

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

vagina dentata — part 2 [warning: anatomically correct ghost witch]

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

vagina dentata [warning: anatomically correct ghost witch]

Friday, December 1st, 2006

the greed of all those bones missing

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

when it’s not praise and when it’s not all right

Monday, November 27th, 2006

killing icarus

Monday, November 20th, 2006

neo-art brut/ the new raw art

Friday, November 17th, 2006

nicht art brut/ not raw art

Friday, November 17th, 2006

we fell dead

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

plight of the kitchen poet

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Yerevan Blues, no.1

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

on the potawatomi trail: larry mitchell’s survivor tales

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Seventy-five Needles in the Haystack of Poetry

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Boss Detroit Garage

Monday, August 21st, 2006

yo en el fondo del mar

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

X — The Wheel of Fortune/ Migration

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

IX — The Hermit/ The Lighthouse of Alexanderia

Monday, August 7th, 2006

justice for the women of the sudan

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

VIII — Strength/ Afrekete

Monday, July 31st, 2006

VII — The Chariot/ The Flying Dutchman

Friday, July 28th, 2006

VI — The Lovers/ The Selkie and the Paramour

Monday, July 24th, 2006

V — The Hierophant/ Priest of Melqart

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Las Vegas — Divebar

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

IV — The Emperor/ Poseidon

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Contests, Submissions, Awards & Deadlines for July, 2006

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

III — The Empress/ Sedna

Monday, July 10th, 2006

II — The High Priestess/ Qqaaxhadajaat

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

1 — Magician/ Miko no Umugai-hine

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

0 - Fool/ Baby Maui

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

korall haj

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

like footprints across a sweetwater

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

suijin of lake michigan

Monday, May 29th, 2006

happenstance

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Mozart’s Third Brain

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

the sonnet sequence — an introduction

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

a question from tess

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

The Baudelairean Sonnet - part IV

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

The Baudelairean Sonnet - part III

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

MSU Opera Theatre’s The Tales of Hoffmann

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

“Petrarch Sonnet” part 3

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

“Petrarch Sonnet” part 2

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

“Petrarch Sonnet No. 104″

Friday, March 17th, 2006

zachary enters myspace.com

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Even More Contests, Submissions, Awards & Deadlines for March, 2006

Monday, March 13th, 2006

36 and some

Monday, March 13th, 2006

4 Against the Wall — one week later (more photos)

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

4 Against the Wall — one week later

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

Baritone Gregg Baker featured in “Opera News.”

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

shark feeding frenzy closes australian beaches

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

One of the leading lights of America’s post-war feminist movement, Betty Friedan, has died at the age of 85.

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Wasserstein, King & Las Vegas

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

National Whomp Up Poetry Book Month

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Fine & Mellow

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Dream a Little Dream (of me)

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

everybody’s jumpin’

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

inspirachel

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

the stuff of gobbledygook

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Revisiting the Grijalva

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Lansing Poetry Reading - “Come Celebrate 4 Years of NuPoets!”

Friday, January 13th, 2006

amigos de la uruguay

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Mozart’s Women

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Big Chords on a Dark Guitar

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Castellanos’ Lavanderas del Grijalva

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

No Joy in Mudville

Friday, January 6th, 2006

mixed cocktail of Ashbery-Tate with a twist of Bernstein

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

le mar, la mer, le mar, part 2

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

le mar, la mer, le mar

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

a new look at neruda’s la united fruit co. (II)

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

a new look at neruda’s la united fruit co.

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

the art of translation

Sunday, January 1st, 2006