Green Fuse
Poetry & music at the Unitarian Universalist Society in Stamford The force that through the green fuse drive the flower Drives my green age … Dylan Thomas
Monthly Archive: April 2010
corn 3
The repetitive appearance of the word “corn” in “Everything I Know About Corn” is a pattern. The pattern is like corn kernels. The poem is shaped vaguely like an ear of corn, tall and...
more about corn
I’m remembering a conference on the Prose Poem, August 2001, Walpole New Hampshire. Robert Bly attended. His main emphasis in writing prose poems is close observance of, intimacy with, the object. Including plants. He...
corn
Lisa Jarnot Everything I Know About Corn ecopoetics 1, page 55 I’ve read this poem many times. I’m starting to feel like I’ve eaten corn from reading the poem a lot. I enjoy eating...
backwords
Turning it around – “Can Poetry Destroy the World?” Imagining humans without language or with a different kind of language. Can language be the root destructive force? Has poetry contributed?
poetry – pottery – puppetry
I went to a poetry reading this week featuring my friend Ralph Nazareth. He closed with “A Question for Vaclav Havel,” a short prose poem wherein he tries to ask Vaclav Havel whether poetry...
rock balancing
Rock balancing is by Bridget Polk Go here for a flickr set by thebiblioholic Go here for bridget polk’s facebook album