A Wonderful Review

Byrtrt May 31, 2014September 23, 2020

There is a wonderful review of Woman With Crows by writer Claire Farley in The California Journal of Women Writers:

http://tcjww.org/2014/05/29/woman-with-crows-by-ruth-thompson/

I do not know Claire and had not seen the review, so it came as a joyous surprise to open my computer yesterday and read her words.

I am full of happiness – not just because she loved the book, but because she understood it – stood witness to it.

That is, I think, the deepest thing we are after as writers — to feel we connected.

TCJWW also interviewed me and this should appear in a couple of weeks.

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Why Hungry Ghosts Must Keep Flying

Byrtrt January 10, 2016September 23, 2020

In Tibetan paintings, the realm of the hungry ghosts coexists with this one. They fly around and around us, wailing their lack, screaming to be filled. They are pictured with long constricted necks and vast, flapping, empty bellies. There is no way to unknot the neck and receive nourishment, no matter how much – or…

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What there is to worship

Byrtrt November 26, 2015September 23, 2020

For all of you, with my deepest gratitude, on this Thanksgiving day. Flotsam The storm drives all ashore—thrown stick with dogteeth,twig of twisted pine, thumbnail jellyfish with dark sails fallen, fouled ballast, soapyolivine foam. Everyone here has the same story. We are blown here out of sight of ourselves, staggering and dismayed. Yet we are…

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Crannóg, Trees, Vortexes, and Home

Byrtrt March 7, 2018September 23, 2020

It made me very happy to know that Crannóg Magazine had selected my poem “Unleaving” for Issue 47, now available. It makes such a resonant conjunction of different places and times! Crannóg is published in Galway, Ireland, yet this is a praise poem to the trees of northern California, and starts out with an American…

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Losing the Words

Byrtrt June 23, 2015September 23, 2020

Another poem from Crazing. Recorded at a delightful reading on June 13th at the Hilo Public Library. Losing the Words Wantons, they’d give themselves to anyone!See how they slip in and out of one another’s clothes? How—dressed in zinnia-colored feathers, giggling—they settle to the lip like birds, then flicker away? Oh, they hide behind the…

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Beginning Writing Class (Hilo)

Byrtrt March 9, 2015September 23, 2020

BEGINNING WRITING WITH RUTH THOMPSONSPRING 2015 This class is for people who are interested in starting to write, and also for people who already write but would like to refocus their practice. Each meeting will focus on a different aspect of writing practice. We’ll talk about “morning pages” and keeping a notebook, experiment with writing…

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Documentary: Poetry Flash reading

Byrtrt March 30, 2018September 23, 2020

WHALE FALL READING FEBRUARY 2017 Here is Lauren Levine’s documentary about a reading I gave at Poetry Flash in 2017, featuring poems from the “Whale Fall” project I’ve been working on recently. This video shows the beginning and ending poems, plus one example from the central “Slow Worms” section, and a poem about the great…

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