Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Monday, February 27, 2023
TOM LUDDY, CINEMA ~
Mr. Luddy at the 2017 Telluride Film Festival. The festival became a gathering of devotees to the religion of filmmaking, and Mr. Luddy was its most fervent believer and its main officiant. Pamela Gentile, via Telluride Film Festival
1943 ~ 2023
Sunday, February 26, 2023
DALE MARTIN SMITH ~
Look for the Local
It would not have been possible
to say to you, Here, inhabit
this now. Rain and leaves
suggest time is with you.
Corners, cluttered with plants,
books, pictures. The trees
were full of leaves, and now not
so red, so yellow.
In this blur what is apprehended
bends toward, and away, from you.
Slow day of rain, and naked,
hair up, casual in this light.
________________________
Dale Martin Smith
BLUR
Knife | Fork | Book, 2022
Canada
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Friday, February 24, 2023
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
URSULA K. LE GUIN ~
Extinction
Imagine dark.
Forty years' rain.
The sinking ark.
No dogs bark
or doves complain
in the long dark.
No eel or shark
noses in vain
the ribs of the ark.
No star, no spark.
No full or wane.
Silence and dark.
Without mark,
without stain,
bright, stark,
the ocean's arc
is bare again
above the dark,
the sunken ark.
__________________
Ursula K. Le Guin
Collected Poems
The Library of America, 2023
edited by Harold Bloom
"Extinction" was first published by Longhouse in 2007
in Ursula K. Le Guin's foldout booklet Four Different Poems
reprinted here in the new The Library of America volume
Photograph by Theo Downes-Le Guin
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
MICHAEL PALMER ~
After Midnight
Sometime after midnight
Han Shan drifted down
a mountain path
and arrived in my dream
only to announce
that every angel is terrifying
also that heron you saw
by the muddy pond
was not real.
You, reader,
may believe this or not.
Han Shan said
that he does not
though he spoke
such words
to me
as if
they were his own.
_________________
Michael Palmer
Little Elegies for Sister Satan
New Directions, 2021
Monday, February 20, 2023
PETER GIZZI ~
The Afterlife of Paper
the last best love is language in the mouth
the last best hope for joy doesn't forget
a besting sensation
the last stranger blooming on the tongue
a compass rose blooming internally
laying down track
riding the rails
wake unto me
_____________________
Peter Gizzi
Now It's Dark
Wesleyan 2020
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Friday, February 17, 2023
Thursday, February 16, 2023
LAO YANG, PEE POEMS ~
U F O
A kite from another world arrives
Bearing another lonely dream
_______________
Lao Yang
Pee Poems
Circumference Books
2016
translations by
Joshua Edwards
Lynn Xu
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Monday, February 13, 2023
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