by Ivory Web | Mar 12, 2011 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
over café au lait open-throated laughterand a perfume you can taste~ ~ ~ ~ ~cicada afternoon –in the sanctuary’s coolnessstained-glass parables~ ~ ~ ~ ~suddenly (purple freckles on her lavender-clad breasts) a shower* Larry Kimmel is a US poet...
by Ivory Web | Mar 11, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
The Road Eyes shut. She is driving. She cracks narrow slits of vision to warn her of a bend in the road. Granted a godly favor, she eludes a dreadful crash.Eyes thoroughly shut. Sleeping mind alarmed. She is driving.The beauty of the road is glimpsed by her...
by Ivory Web | Mar 10, 2011 | Interviews
Seven QuestionsIn this series Ink Sweat & Tears talks to practicing writers about their process.1. Where do you write? (do you have an office, room, bus journey that you find yourself and your writing?)I have a study at the top of our lighthouse that looks across...
by Ivory Web | Mar 9, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Dog Woman (Paula Rego) The leaded grey of pencil and charcoalare cross hatched waters rupturing,her mouth opens to the beast in us – she howls at first gently like a wolf as the moon opens wider over all the animalsin the depths of night and I open everypore...
by Ivory Web | Mar 8, 2011 | Blogs & News
Another poetry festival, are you mad? So, why would you want to launch a new poetry festival now? Arts circles are full of gloom about funding cuts; the economy isn’t exactly rosy and there’s plenty of evidence that the downturn has hit commercial sponsorship. Should...