Poetry
November 12, 2009
- I want to write a poem. I have written some. They sound like sadness. Like happiness. Like deathly smirk. Taunts. Caresses.I want to write a poem now.I can do it.As I poke a sharp nail into anotherAnd wait for pink to turn to red to turn to a squirt.And wait for my toes to curl and sleep like a baby.And wait for the eyes to stop thinking…Wait! Eyes think?Mine do.My eyes think, I can see them ...
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November 11, 2009
- I write many different kinds of poems, but one kind involves poetry about jazz and various jazz musicians. This week (11/11/09) and two of the last three weeks before that some of these poems have been featured on podcasts at a website here in Los Angeles called City of Angels Music, a guide to the local jazz scene. Here is the link: http://www.avantradio.com/cotamusic2/story.shtmlThis ...
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November 11, 2009
- A Few First Steps to Applying to Artist Residencies © Susan Rich Be a dreamer and a realist. Which artist residency would you most like to spend time at? Apply. But don’t pack your bags quite yet. An analogous process might be applying to colleges. Aim high, medium, and outside the box. Create cohesion in your application. You need a narrative line to be ...
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November 10, 2009
- So many houses crowd together, cul-de-sac redux and redux again, for they are America in clapboard vinyl. Chevrolets and Toyotas guard the flags that fly from fiberglass front doors from Home Depot --- so much the same, needing that, wanting no more. And the houses all have gutters straight and true, and one neat green lawn flows into another as a waveless sea. And on the one with the ...
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November 10, 2009
- A drop of blood;A lifetime of sin, joy, and tears in a single drop.A jury no lawyer can persuade.A judge no court can overturn.The witnesses speak with silent voices.The verdict simple, life or death.The prisoner awaits as the jury foreman speaks.
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November 8, 2009
- It seems they gave me a blog feature on this website. It sounds pretty exciting, I've never wrote a blog before. As far as blogs go, this ones busting my cherry.We should get this trash train a' rollin'.For starters my name is Philip, you can call me Phil if you want and I reside in Athens GA. Check out my profile if you're interested in anything further.As for right now I'm not sure what to make ...
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November 8, 2009
- This is the poem that inspired Joanne Harris' novel Sleep, Pale Sister: She fell asleep on Christmas Eve: At length the long-ungranted shade Of weary eyelids overweigh'd The pain nought else might yet relieve. Our mother, who had leaned all day Over the bed from chime to chime, Then raised herself for the first time, And as she sat her ...
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November 8, 2009
- About Freedom of Press: The Sitting Duck In a healthy society, it is important that journalists are free to do their reporting without facing violence, torture and even death. It’s part of our universal rights to have an independent press. I was watching Christiane Amanpour documentary “Scream Bloody Murder”. Suddenly I saw a video where Christiane Amanpour was talking about journalists ...
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November 7, 2009
- By the numbers on my dashboard, I see that quite a few of you have visited the art on my media page. I really appreciate your dropping by. For a weekend mini-vacation, I invite all of you to stroll through a fresh posting of my visual art. Come as you are. Guaranteed easy on the feet! The luxury of living deep in the Maine woods brings me fresh artistic inspiration daily ...
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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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