Monthly Archive: January 2008

from the office

Poems from the Office (pdf) One-Line Poems by Kathryn Born Of interest because it uses office artifacts to create poems and because the coffee stain on the front cover is an enso (or the...

botanicals

January – good time for a trip to the Botanical Garden

scansion

Calendars by Annie Finch Calendars Study Guide You could learn everything you need to know about meter & scansion by studying these two books.

earth house holding

—If one wished to write poetry of nature, where an audience? Must come from the very conflict of an attempt to articulate the vision      poetry & nature in our time. (reject the human; but...

coaxing words

From the Mongol Embassy website: In their many years of nomadic life, the Mongols have developed their own specific techniques of handling livestock. One technique employs toig, a special coaxing word, which is uttered...

one click

Happiness is … one-click WordPress upgrades. Thank you, Dreamhost. [Actually, it took a few more clicks, mostly to update the database.]

“tired of trees”

In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari, 20th century French post-structuralists, are interested in explorations and subversions instead of analytic logic and unified Truth, of which the concept of the rhizome is only part....