July 31, 2017
On Process and Wholeness
In my last post, a quote from Emerson reached me at just the right moment in my own life. In looking into the quote’s context in Emerson’s journals, I found […]
December 19, 2016
Unica Zürn: It lies in your hand
Enge, hier ist dein Land . . . es liegt in deiner Hand. (Narrow, here is your country . . . It lies in your hand.) –Unica Zürn (Berlin, 1954) […]
September 14, 2016
The Victor Dog
My husband recently inherited an old Victrola from his maternal grandparents. It’s perfectly maintained; lift the lid and wind the crank and drop the needle on one of the thick records […]
July 28, 2015
Poetry and Play (Part II): An Exegesis Mashup
OFTEN I AM PERMITTED TO RETURN TO A MEADOW / HOMO LUDENS as if it were a scene made-up by the mind, that is not mine, but is a […]
May 26, 2015
Soundings: Poetry and Process
Sounding: the action or process of measuring the depth of the sea or other body of water. Sounding: information or evidence ascertained as a preliminary step before deciding on a […]
June 1, 2012
A Craft Note On the Duet (part 4) and On the Elegy (part 2)
Several several weeks ago now, Tarfia Faizullah and I exchanged notes on the elegy in what was billed as the first part of a multi-part craft note on the elegy. […]