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we umbilicus to Earth. .54 mm bullets light up our backs, exit our bellies Pre-K: St. Michaels, AZ. Nuns, black scapular and white cowl, shunt milk-blood prayers down constricted throats; gurgling cramped bellies. from Ghazal VI, Volume 61, Issue 4 Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote. Something that initially comes to mind is a poem I wrote in high school about payphones changing from 25 cents to 35 five cents. I think I was trying to be funny or ironic, but the piece was sort of long with a rhymey and ecstatic cadence, unmetered lines. I have no idea what other themes or images it possessed. It’s probably on a three-inch floppy disk in a rotting box. ....
Is it just me or did I get the hardest assignment? I drew the books slot for our series of stories on the best in Oregon arts and culture. And while I have had a blast poring âover many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,â as a non-Oregonian once wrote, winnowing this puppy down has not been easy. Originally I hoped to come up with a Top 10 list. Hopeless, utterly hopeless. Then I decided to have two lists, one for fiction and the other for nonfiction. Much better, but as you can see, the outcome is far more than just 20 books. But now that I have organized it on the basis of authors I m closer to keeping the project from killing too many trees. ....
Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic. Poet Kim Stafford joins guest host Naomi Shihab Nye on Episode 141 of The Quarantine Tapes. The former Poet Laureate of Oregon, Kim offers beautiful reflections on the meaning of poetry today. He talks about what it means to make poetry that addresses this moment and why he has shifted to sending poems out immediately. Naomi asks Kim about his writing practice. He compares writing to alchemy, describing the refuge that writing creates inside your own, and expresses his hope that more people will find the power of writing. Then, they talk about what it means to be a good citizen and how poetry fits into politics and community. ....