Patrick Sweeney & Angele Ellis: Wednesday Haiku, #125

 Woodblock by Hasui

Sleepless night
the extraordinary algebra
of the teeming rain

Patrick Sweeney

 

 Photo by Rosemary*

stardust
amaryllis
unclose to us

Angele Ellis

Woodblock by Kuson

in cold water
sipping the stars...
Milky Way

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don   

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Spring Equinox Reading: 3/28/13 @ ModernFormations

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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Kirsten Cliff & Angele Ellis: Wednesday Haiku, #106

Photo by Edgar Barany

heartsick . . .
the foxgloves of my childhood
out of reach

Kirsten Cliff

 

Nokhur graveyard - photo by Carpetblogger

country graveyard—
sheep-like stones
herded by farmhouse shadows

Angele Ellis

  

Photo by zilverbat

Visiting the graves
the old dog
leads the way

Issa
translated by Robert Hass

best,

Don   

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Gary Hotham & Angele Ellis: Wednesday Haiku #103

Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston

the more things dry off
   the rest of our life
       after the rain

        Gary Hotham

Photograph by Pictoscribe

 


half-ripe tomatoes
lined up on the warm sill--
grandmother

     Angele Ellis

Tramps (photograph) by H. Koppdelaney

the little crow
slips so cleverly...
spring rain

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don   

 

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Wednesday Haiku, #16 : Angele Ellis

  


Wednesday Haiku, Week #16

coffee steam rises
you move
from one dream to another

Angele Ellis

in the nightingale's
song, steam
from the Buddha's rice

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

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Spared by Angele Ellis Book Launch Reading

Tomorrow night, there will be a reading locally at Modern Formations Gallery to celebrate the release of  the wonderful new collection Spared by Pittsburgh poet, Angele Ellis.  Here's the info:

   

Friendship writer Angele Ellis’s second book of poems, Spared (a runner-up in Main Street Rag’s 2010 Chapbook Competition) “…names the longing in all of it - simul-                taneously raging and calling upon mortality in these robust, spirited poems,” says Jan Beatty, a guest reader at this release party. Other guest poets include Renée Alberts, Madalon Amenta, Deb Bogen, Dana Killmeyer, Ellen McGrath Smith, Andrew Sydlik, and Don Wentworth. Please join us for an evening of hot and cool verse, refreshments, and books. All are welcome!

I'm also told that besides Angele, Jan, and the cited readers there is going to be a very special surprise.  I can simply say for myself that it will be an honor to share the stage with these wonderful poets.

Gallery info: Modernformations Gallery  4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA (412) 362-0274

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This week's featured poem comes from Lilliput Review, #146, by Greg Watson, our humble attempt to get those tight buds blooming out there.  Enjoy.



 

Even in spring
I keep thinking of your
autumn hair,

Greg Watson

in my sake cup
down the hatch!
the Milky Way

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

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