Caught “A Prairie Home Companion” today on the radio. I loved Garrison Keillor’s poetry tribute to NYC (where the show was taped) and his poetic commentary on the economy too. He also featured a Langston Hughes poem set to music and sang a sonnet. Kiellor has been criticized for various reasons in the literary community, [...]
I’ve recently joined the Marin Poetry Center and am impressed by the programs. Of particular interest: Jan 15 7:30 pm Panel Discussion on ‘Poetry and Political Activism’ For poets who are activists, how does their politics play out their writing? Can poetry make any political difference if not conjoined with activism? Does it make any [...]
If it wasn’t for my erudite step-daughter I would never have known that synedoche the film is a play on literary device But why re-invent the wheel? This review on IMDB /Film Critic Magazine says it as well as I would have:
“A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities” San Francisco Bay Press, Virginia/San Francisco: 2009
In her second full-length poetry collection, Joan Gelfand explores the poignancy of living in a world that is war-torn and environmentally damaged. With a nod to the humorous paradox of modern life, Gelfand writes from the vantage point of a mother, an artist, and a Zen meditator. “A Dreamer’s Guide…” looks beyond the surface of our lives at the connections that make live worth living, and the sensual details that color it. Read More
Seeking Center: A Collection of Poems by Joan Gelfand, Two Bridges Press, Richmond CA: 2006
In Seeking Center, Joan Gelfand joins the reader in a free-wheeling discussion, beyond the poems themselves, regarding what is poetry today, here at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Read More