Posted: April 28th, 2011 
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My recent haiku contest win garners me a spot as a guest judge. Submit your best fruit-themed poem for a chance to win!
 Two old Japanese tanka poems and photos of the St. Croix River to accompany them.  A new documentary features Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison wandering around California’s Central Coast talking about poetry, art, Zen and God. asphalt and concrete beaten by winter broken and cracked drive across wisconsin on the first day of spring trees without leaves ground without grass sweeping hills, dormant dairy farms and warm wind ridges and gullies corn fields and tree stands woodlots and knolls an old world anew a season survived snow in the shady places the lady faces west and up her eyes and her lips smothered in sun There is a wonderful poem about Levon Helm in this week’s New Yorker. And if, unfortunately, you don’t know who Levon Helm is, I suggest you watch these two videos: |
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