Apr
4
What’s Bookish In The Pink Light Of Spring?
April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
…An eternal poem etched on the roads of a town, a novelist who took a 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail and lived to tell the tale, an NPR word nerdy piece that references my favorite book as a child…
Jan
18
Please Don’t Burn Our Digital “Books”
January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment
In protest of digital book “burning”.
Dec
28
A Bookish Mystery of Beauty
December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment
It started with a wonderful creation, left anonymously on a table in a library…
Dec
7
Stopping Traffic with Haiku
December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment
If it’s been a while since you’ve checked out our parent site LiveWriters, here’s a great sample of what’s over there – (Livewriters curates a wonderful sampling of booknerdy, and free, videos every day.) And now for something completely different. Haiku Traffic Signs Bring Poetry To NYC Streets by NPR STAFF If you’re walking or biking [...]
Nov
17
Imagination: We Are Its Shadow On The Earth
November 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment
“Our imagination flies; we are its shadow on the earth.” – Vladimir Nabokov My dear friend over at the O! Lightening blog did a delightful post on some music she loves (specifically Gillian Welch’s impossibly gorgeous new album) and she introduced that post with a poem of equal beauty by Czesław Miłosz (found also here on Whiskey River - [...]
Oct
7
Tomas Tranströmer has won the Noble Prize in Literature. Here‘s a bit about it from the LA Times: Nobel Prize winner Tomas Transtromer, in translation Poet Tomas Tranströmer is well known in Sweden, but here in the U.S. he hasn’t become the household name of, say, your average Kardashian. Winning the Nobel Prize in literature [...]
Jun
9
Two Smallish (But Enormous) Things
June 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment
First, a comic about writing and drawing for a living… Small Potatoes by Paul Madonna (Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna. Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com) Now, a poem – Rita Mae Reese’s first book, The Alphabet Conspiracy, includes a short poem called “Waiting for Lightningâ€: Who I am begins [...]
Jun
3
My Corner
June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment
When I was in 4th grade our public school had a poetry program. We were inspired to write and share poems, and at the end of the year our poetry was published in a slim moss-green volume. We could not wait to show our parents our own copy of a new book with our very [...]
Apr
22
Across The Overgrown Garden Flutters The Shadow
April 22, 2011 | 2 Comments
The painful practice of dissecting the future.
Apr
7
Our Ones and Zeros Are As Sturdy As Old Lace
April 7, 2011 | 1 Comment
I write here often about the digital dark age in which we are carelessly placing our future. I am concerned more than ever now that we are moving in such quick droves to digital book formats – our paper records shall become rarities. Frail as they are, at least paper and other organic media have [...]