Why There Are Words Reading (Video)

Byrtrt February 21, 2015September 23, 2020

Video from reading in November, 2014, at Why There Are Words in Sausalito. Such a fun evening! (The whole thing only runs 9 minutes, so enjoy!)

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Woman With Crows

Byrtrt July 17, 2014September 23, 2020

Woman With Crows There is a woman who catches crows on her tongue.They speak when she is tongue-tied. In the mornings she advises balloons.How high it is safe to go, and when to retire from politics. At night she turns into creek water and sleepsin a quart berry basket. A crow could carry her. When…

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Kintsugi

Byrtrt September 25, 2015September 23, 2020

In this moment of equipoise, balance of night and day, we await a full moon lunar eclipse – an eclipse of the deep golden harvest moon, so warm and radiant. I love lunar eclipses, the dark of the moon, the new moon, the winter solstice, all these times of letting go, erasure, darkness and rebirth….

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Spring Along Cazenovia Creek

Byrtrt March 21, 2018September 23, 2020

This isn’t a new poem – in fact, it begins my first book, Here Along Cazenovia Creek, praise poems to the changing seasons in the beautiful hill country of western New York. There is no spring like that after a long winter. Here in Hilo, we have had the longest, coldest, rainiest winter in history,…

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Beginning Again On Imbolc

Byrtrt February 14, 2023February 16, 2023

Welcome back! I’m writing this, the first of a new series of posts and newsletters, on Imbolc. Imbolc is the first stirring of spring underground. It’s lambing time, Brigid’s day – Brigid who was a goddess of creative fire and fertility, long before she was a saint. In Gaelic, Imbolc means “in the belly of…

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Loving-Kindness Meditation

Byrtrt March 3, 2015September 23, 2020

Last Sunday, as thunder rolled in and the sweet rain began to fall at last on Hilo, I was in the middle of leading a loving-kindness meditation for a wellness series. I could feel every stressed tree, every parched blade of grass, open its cells and sigh with relief. It seemed so perfect to be…

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New News NOW

Byrtrt March 19, 2014September 23, 2020

Yesterday my friend Marcia Meier posted a very interesting quote on Facebook, and a lively discussion followed. Here’s the quote: John Updike said, “No amount of learned skills can substitute for the feeling of having a lot to say, of bringing news. Memories, impressions, and emotions from your first 20 years on earth are most…

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Judy Slater says:

February 21, 2015 at 2:30 pm

Ruth, One of your best readings. I liked the pace which created space for the audience to savor a poem heard for the first time. And of course the poems which on rereading and rehearing only gain in emotional appeal and music.
and you couldn’t hear!
Judy
Michelle Manning-Kogler says:

February 21, 2015 at 5:24 pm

What a joy to see and hear you read, Ruth! I am one of your biggest fans! Thank you for posting this.
Jocelyn says:

February 25, 2015 at 2:34 am

Lovely to hear a poet who reads so well her brilliant compositions!

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