Archive for November, 2008

BlogTalkRadio interview Nov 14, 2008

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Reading selected poems from “Seeking Center.”
Listen to the interview on the BlogTalkRadio site.

Transported

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Lost in fog’s waterfall
We snake past Laguna Honda
Where Philip Whalen -
Bohemian, beat, Buddhist
Priest, lived his last. Wailed
“Put me to rest
On a bed of frozen raspberries.”
“Almost every downtown corner
Displays crippled sick and dirty people
Beat and tromped on
Others look for what to look at
Watch to see
If they are noticed
Where to spend all this money.”*
Whalen’s words echo round [...]

Naked

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Had my first performance anxiety dream last night. Late for a reading, unprepared and, of course, naked! This on the heels of getting mentioned on bookslut.com this week, and also on the SylviaPlath international blog site; with eight solid readings and interviews set up for January-March, a back sliding moment – I’m not ready! But, [...]