New animation: Ninas Blues by Cornelius Eady

by | Feb 28, 2010 | Word & Image

Here's a new animated poem – Nina's Blues – written and read by Cornelius Eady. It is part of the Poetry Everywhere initiative, produced by the Poetry Foundation in association with docUWM at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The animation by Ryan...

Deborah Gordon wants nothing fancy

by | Feb 27, 2010 | Prose & Poetry

MermaidsDown on the nudist beach –Holding hands.Drumming up stories,Lies and fantasiesOf some neat country,Some, arcane hemisphereYou are hoping to take me toLate summer,When the air is fresherAnd the sea is more clearAnd the mermaids appear,In their dozens,Not far...

John Swain has an atlas of signs

by | Feb 25, 2010 | Prose & Poetry

Atlas of SignsFrom the valleypeople traveled,the bones of cattle staked like a gate.I sought the acerbic shadeof the manchineel treewhere sand cliffs dissolve into tideslike bronze idols or collapsing horses.The shadow of a frigatebird armorsmy already guarded...

Sonia Jarema says 'come to me'

by | Feb 24, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga

Come Come to methe ice whispered.Come to me –you can walk on water. I turned away and looked at the snow that had hidden the expanse of lawn and left powder shaken down one side of each of the trees making them slimmer. It had also dusted their bare branches...