like garlic and Earth Balance over warm rotini the key changes in Stevie’s “Summer Soft” flowers on the window sill (our window sill) Roland Orzabal’s guitar solo on ”Everybody Wants To Rule The World” miso ramen with white pepper and sprouts eaten at the bar where everyone is sweating sembe and a cold bottle of […]
what the rain couldn’t hear was time is a mistress of moreGoddessriddling the windwith her tongues on our clockscarvingour dark beginsour peel scraped endsour molecules thinned enough to birth light ineach element of usin all the spacethat elect…
Poem A Day – Ed Rinaldi – what the rain couldn’t hear was Read More »
Although I did publish a chapbook last year of poems written during a month of prompts, Poeming the Prompt (A.P.D.), I’m not one for this form of assignment, mainly because I don’t like doing something because everyone else is doing it. But I know it…
For NaPoWriMo, my version Read More »
staining the exitsthe house is all ghosts and no bonesas if pall-bearing death itselfwill watch the wind all day take my breath intothe quiet that tapping keysgives birth tomy every unknownmy every outcome my every lovemy every stonethrown in wishesat …
Poem A Day – Ed Rinaldi – staining the exits Read More »
POEM REMOVED FOR EDITING /// so it’s national poetry month. typically, i rush head-long into the poem-a-day challenges like this one and this one. but haven’t been sitting down to write much at all. i haven’t been able to write even when i do. and i am nervous about jumping back in. i haven’t been […]
her daring and her hesitate (napowrimo #1-ish) Read More »
Cape Town singing Cape Town into Brooklyn through a pair of speakers made in China music written in the Berkshires by a madhouse veteran of the solo circuit green tea in the last surviving mug from the latest in a long line of relocations the new room has an altar in it which would surprise […]
feeding the dark hemssack-cloth rivers watch timestacking each carvedclearly identifiable featurethe Sun can sell of youto pair gravity withrise the probabilities by the day and flood the outcomesin the languagesof dreams at nighttell de…
Poem A Day – Ed Rinaldi – feeding the dark hems Read More »
Back on my home turf to one of the most “spirited” open mics in the area, perhaps because our host, Mary Panza, is usually spirited herself. With our featured poet, Leslie Michelle, herself, waiting in the wings, Mary began the open mic.Leslie Gerber …
Poets Speak Loud!, March 26 Read More »
This reading at the Carlos Rosario International School, up 11th Street from U Street, included 4 poets from the Beloit Poetry Journal special edition for Split This Rock, José Padua, Khaled Mattawa, Minnie Bruce Pratt & Marilyn Nelson. The MC wa…
Split This Rock, Afternoon Reading, March 24 Read More »
So, Poetry Slams are basically a gimmick to get more people out to and involved in poetry events. This is pretty much a fact, though I am sure it is contested, thus the pretty much. One way this is achieved is by having judges picked from the audience. Another is by stating to the judges
The Spirit of Poetry Slam Read More »
I have always prided myself on being a cool girl. I was always at the cool places with the cool artists types. I would sneak my face in every photo possible. I have jumped on every trend from shaving my head to waxing my privates. Ego the size of my ass. That is until today.
Housewife Tuesday: The Day Destiny Found Me Read More »
I am back with another edition of Thom’s 10 Things… on a gray day in crime-free downtown Albany. Here is what I have been thinking about this week (in no particular order). 1 – Poetry Out Loud I had the opportunity to sit on the judges panel this past Saturday for the state finals of Poetry Out
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