Low Ghost / Six Gallery Joint Reading, Modern Formations, 7-8-11

Photos by small press poet, novelist, essayist, photographer, librarian and impresario Karen Lillis, from the combined Low Ghost / Six Gallery reading on Friday July 3rd. For the curious and those unable to attend ...

Don Wentworth

Kris Collins - Low Ghost Press

Lucy Goubert

Jason Baldringer

Margaret Bashaar

Bob Pajich

Mark Spitzer

Thanks to all, especially featured reader Mark Spitzer (with guest appearance by Bigfoot), Low Ghost Press, Nathan of Six Gallery Press, Jen of ModernFormations (celebrating their 10th anniversary with a fab retrospective), and a enthusiastic attentive crowd.

Morning glory opens
to anything,
even you

                                                                     ~ dw








old pond--
please, you go first
frog jumping

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

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Wednesday Haiku - Week 5: John Stokes

Hokusai: Brooklyn Museum

Wednesday Haiku, Week #5

on a gray
winter day
the morning glory
opens

John Stokes

morning-glory--
one inch from its tip
darkness

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

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Issa for the Twitter Generation

Folks are thinking up lots of ways to use the new technologies to serve classic content. The latest is David S. Lanoue's world famous Issa Archive for folks Twitter addicted (and perhaps poetry deficient).

Old school as I am, I get my daily dose of David's Issa via email. Now you can get that same daily dose while immersed in daily doses of, well, a million other things. Here's a look at the Twitter version.

Calls to mind the thousand petaled lotus or a field full of morning glories.

Here's a little Issa the old fashioned way:


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voice of the bell--
the morning-glories are the first
to stir

Issa
translated by David S. Lanoue

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best,
Don