rooms in the news
New Frida Kahlo clothing, artifacts discovered Exciting news! But leads one to wonder – how could they lose a large collection of clothes and artifacts in a house/museum? And in other domestic news: Mona...
Author: cednie
ode to the ode
Something else made out of poetry.
placecards
Ran across Gary Mex Glazner’s blog, Make a Living as a Poet. I am not quite extroverted enough to ever hope to make a living as a poet. But I find myself often thinking...
siduri’s tavern
Stephen Mitchell’s translation of Gilgamesh Still engaged with elements of Gilgamesh, his frantic, futile search Encounter with Siduri, the veiled tavern keeper at the edge of the world She climbs on her roof when...
woven
“Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.” ~Walter Benjamin, critic and philosopher...
prosody’s handmaid
“The impulse that originally gave us the prose poem, in fact, beginning with Aloysius Bertrand and predecessors, then shaped by the surrealists and progeny, was the drive to disconnect from the rigidity of formal...
flauta prohibited
Haiku doesn’t come that easily for me – I come up with phrases that are three or four syllables, not five or seven I have trouble describing just what is there I’m always trying...