April 30th poem

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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Poetry month news

Tuesday, April 30, 2013



Thanks to the NaPoWriMo site for featuring my blog today!  I can't believe it's almost the end of poem-a-day month. 

Check out the blogs of my friends Lauren Gordon and Annmarie O'Connell, who totally killed it during NaPoWriMo. 

Also, poetry will continue after April.  This Stain of Poetry reading on May 31st featuring Lee Ann Roripaugh, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Kathleen Rooney, and Lynn Melnick stands to be amazing!  It will be my first time back hosting (with co-hosts J. Hope Stein and Jenny Zhang) since the baby was born. 

April 29th poem

Monday, April 29, 2013

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April 28th poem

Sunday, April 28, 2013

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April 27th poem

Saturday, April 27, 2013

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April 26th poem

Friday, April 26, 2013

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April 25th poem

Thursday, April 25, 2013

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April 24th poem

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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Cathlamet Prize

Wednesday, April 24, 2013


I'm pleased to announce that I've won the Cathlamet Prize from Ravenna Press, and my chapbook Crown will be published as part of their Pocket Books series.  I'll keep you posted on when the chapbook will be out.  I'm really happy that this manuscript has found a home with Ravenna Press!  

April 23rd poem

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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April 22nd poem

Monday, April 22, 2013

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April 21st poem

Sunday, April 21, 2013

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April 20th poem

Saturday, April 20, 2013

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Elizabeth Bishop

Friday, April 19, 2013


Elizabeth Bishop House, Great Village, Nova Scotia

The blog of the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary has linked to my April 11th piece about staying at the Bishop House.  What an honor.  Check out the blog for interesting posts about Bishop and Bishop scholarship, like the Wonder Questions, posts exploring the connections between the work of Elizabeth Bishop and other writers, artists, and musicians, including people like Orwell! and Nabokov!

April 19th poem

Friday, April 19, 2013

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April 18th poem

Friday, April 19, 2013

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April 17th poem

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

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April 16th poem

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

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April 15th poem

Monday, April 15, 2013

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April 14th poem

Sunday, April 14, 2013

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April 13th poem

Saturday, April 13, 2013

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April 12th poem

Friday, April 12, 2013

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April 11th poem

Thursday, April 11, 2013


While the Baby Sleeps

I read an Anne Carson poem about walking before dawn in Iceland.  I'm envious of Anne Carson then.  I want to be in Iceland doing things like that, seeing crows as big as chairs.  Ravens.  Or in another place, Nova Scotia, maybe, where I went once to stay at Elizabeth Bishop's childhood home and write because one of the house's owners told me I should.  Or could.  I did more revision than writing there.  I read a book of prose poems by Anne Carson there that I liked.  I also read the beginning of Anne of Green Gables, a couple of books by Canadian authors I hadn't heard of, some old National Geographics in the sitting room that was lonely to go into, some files of photocopied archival materials about Bishop.  I got my feet stuck in the red-purplish mud of the Bay of Fundy.  I walked down the middle of the road with my friend Douglas at around midnight.  There were so many stars I didn't know what to do.  I thought of Bishop's poem about Robinson Crusoe, and I kept telling Douglas that we should move over to the side of the road in case a Canadian redneck came peeling through the village in a pickup truck in the dark.  Every night we would meet in the kitchen and ask each other if we thought the house was haunted.  Neither of us would stay in the largest bedroom.  I think that's where Bishop's mother screamed that time before she went back to the sanatorium for good.  The house got very sad around dusk and stayed that way for a while, but I loved it. 

April 10th poem

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

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April 9th poem

Tuesday, April 09, 2013

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April 8th poem

Monday, April 08, 2013

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April 7th poem

Sunday, April 07, 2013

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April 6th poem

Saturday, April 06, 2013

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April 5th poem

Friday, April 05, 2013

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April 4th poem

Thursday, April 04, 2013

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April 3rd poem

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

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April 2nd poem

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

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April 1st poem

Monday, April 01, 2013


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