Issa's Untidy Hut: Robert Isenberg

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

For those of you within hailing distance, come on out tomorrow (Thursday) night to ModernFormations Gallery when The Friends of Lilliput Review will present a Spring Equinox Reading.

Featured readers are Robert Isenberg, Renée Alberts, Kris Collins, Angele Ellis, and yours truly. Admission is $5 or FREE w/ a covered dish (BYOB)

Aside from the dazzling lyrical entertainment, there will be, as a friend noted, FREE SWAP, in this case the just released new issues of Lilliput Review:

So, if you can, come on out and help an awesome bunch of rag-tag poets usher in one hell of a reluctant spring.

Photo by Patrick Doheny

the little crow
slips so cleverly...
spring rain

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

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Friday, October 14, 2011

News, Reading, a Quiz, and Some Poems

One of the folks it was a great honor meeting this summer in Seattle during the Haiku North America conference was Jerry Ball. Here's a neat little article on him I thought folks might enjoy.

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I'll be doing a reading this Sunday at Nico's Recovery Room to help promote a brand new book of poetry by Robert Isenberg. The book is Wander and is published by Six Gallery Press. Other folks reading and performing are Jason Baldinger, Jerome Crooks, Gab Bonesso, and Vince Eirene on Sunday night at 9:30 pm.

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I ran across this poem in a volume of original poems and translations by Thanasis Makaleris. This is a one of the translations:

Poetry
   In vain the poets endeavor
   To fill the empty space
   With their verses and images.

   Empty space returns
   Larger than before
   Seeking
   To be filled again

   Nanos Valaoritis

I've a real soft spot for poems about poetry. I know, either you love it or you hate it.

I love it.

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I've been reading a lot of Charles Wright lately, a first for me and quite a fine experience. One of his recent volumes, Sestets, I'll be having something to say about in the near future. For now, I'll just say fab. What follows is a poem from another fine book of his I've been reading, China Trace, a much earlier work. I highly recommend both books for anyone one who enjoys insightful short nature-tuned poems.

Reunion
   Already one day has detached itself from all the rest up ahead.
   It has my photograph in its soft pocket.
   It wants to carry my breath into the past in its bag of wind.

   I write poems to untie myself, to do penance and disapppeaar
   Through the upper right-hand corner of things, to say grace.

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Finally, since identifying the poem pictured in artwork a couple of weeks back was a bust (offer is still open and here's a big hint: it's by Ferlinghetti), how about identifying the following photo? Free 6 issue subscription to the first right guess posted in the comments section as to this gentleman's identity.