The good news about Litquake is the energy it generates by sheer density. By scheduling a relentless series of events that no one in the literary world could rightly resist, the weeklong festival gets most every writer, publisher, wanna-be, prof, scribbler, and aspiring youth writers and lovers of literature out of their lairs. LitCrawl, the [...]
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/2009/09/09/tHE-MOE-GREEN-POETRY-DISCUSSION-hosted-By-Kim-McMillon
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9/9/2009 12:00 PM – 1 hr 30 min
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Kim [...]
Are road trips genetically encoded on the writers’ DNA? Or is it me? I don’t know but as soon as I’m thirty minutes from anywhere, on my way to somewhere, the synapses start firing. This trip was particularly evocative. Visiting the Northeast in fall brought back some potent memories of my childhood and teenage years.
Road [...]
“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