RADICAL REVISION ONLINE WORKSHOPRuth ThompsonAugust 6, 13, 20, and 27 3-4:30 Eastern / 12-1:30 Pacific$120 Are you interested in revising older poems? Or new ones? Do you want to unearth the deeper, stranger, more authentic poem that may lie beneath the poem you have written? (It may have a message for you.) RADICAL REVISION is…
HAPPY SPRING! NEW BOOK! It’s Spring! There are red buds on the maples (see Don’s photograph at http://www.newsofelsewhere.com/23-04-01.html)! And no more sno …. Well, maybe I was wrong about that …. And I’ve written a new book! It’s called Journey Bread: New and Selected Poems. It’s a memoir of a life in poetry, a “New and Mostly Rewritten Poems” collection, and a late-in-life…
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…
Today the first edition of Whale Fall & Black Sage went to the printer. A special, numbered and signed edition of 50 was printed for the Whale Fall poetry and dance performance on December 15th, but some blurbs were missing and there were other small edits. So today is the day that it finally feels…
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…
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,…