Wind
It rattles 'round my brain.
A freight train it roars
up canyons, mows down trres,
yet autumn leaves remain.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Presentation
Local author to speak at Northgate Branch of the Public Library, at 11:00 am, Saturday, Oct. 23
RAY ZIMMERMAN, Poet, Writer, Essayist, Storyteller, Educator and Naturalist, will be the featured speaker on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 11:00 am at the Public Library's Northgate Branch, in honor of Friends of the Library Week.
Zimmerman, former president of the Chattanooga Writer's Guild, and organizer of spoken word events in Chattanooga, is a favorite in our city. He will read some of own poems, as well as poems by other authors, a short prose piece, and talk about developing the craft of writing.
Come and be delighted by his gentle spirit, wise words, and humorous observations
Refreshments provided by: Friends of the Library
RAY ZIMMERMAN, Poet, Writer, Essayist, Storyteller, Educator and Naturalist, will be the featured speaker on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 11:00 am at the Public Library's Northgate Branch, in honor of Friends of the Library Week.
Zimmerman, former president of the Chattanooga Writer's Guild, and organizer of spoken word events in Chattanooga, is a favorite in our city. He will read some of own poems, as well as poems by other authors, a short prose piece, and talk about developing the craft of writing.
Come and be delighted by his gentle spirit, wise words, and humorous observations
Refreshments provided by: Friends of the Library
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Pine Tree Tops
Quoting A Poem from Gary Snyder
Pine Tree Tops
in the blue night
frost haze, the sky glows
with the moon
pine tree tops
bend snow-blue, fade
into sky, frost, starlight.
the creak of boots
rabbit tracks, deer tracks,
what do we know. - Gary Snyder
Pine Tree Tops
in the blue night
frost haze, the sky glows
with the moon
pine tree tops
bend snow-blue, fade
into sky, frost, starlight.
the creak of boots
rabbit tracks, deer tracks,
what do we know. - Gary Snyder
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
New Voices
Pasha Coffee House,
3914 St. Elmo Avenue,
6:30 to 8:30 PM
Saturday, October 16, 2010
At New Voices, hot improvisational jazz meets the power of the spoken word. Hear music by The Undoctored Originals, including Dr. Jim Woodford, Keyboards, Dr. Bob Vogt, Saxophone, Billy Lowry, Drums, Ian Kibby, Euphonium, and Jack Gaillard, Congas. This event includes readings by Chattanooga area writers. Past participants have included Ray Zimmerman, Finn Bille, Jim Pfitzer, Bruce Majors, N.L. Diwan, Mary Wier, Julie Alexander, K.B Ballentine, E. Smith Gilbert, and others. Contact: znaturalist@yahoo.com
Confirmed Readers So Far include:
Christyna Jenson
Mary Wier
Christian Collier
Bob Dombrowski
Finn Bille
N.L. Diwan
Dean Mobley
Marcus Ellsworth
Ginnie Strickland Sams
Travis Kilgore
and others
3914 St. Elmo Avenue,
6:30 to 8:30 PM
Saturday, October 16, 2010
At New Voices, hot improvisational jazz meets the power of the spoken word. Hear music by The Undoctored Originals, including Dr. Jim Woodford, Keyboards, Dr. Bob Vogt, Saxophone, Billy Lowry, Drums, Ian Kibby, Euphonium, and Jack Gaillard, Congas. This event includes readings by Chattanooga area writers. Past participants have included Ray Zimmerman, Finn Bille, Jim Pfitzer, Bruce Majors, N.L. Diwan, Mary Wier, Julie Alexander, K.B Ballentine, E. Smith Gilbert, and others. Contact: znaturalist@yahoo.com
Confirmed Readers So Far include:
Christyna Jenson
Mary Wier
Christian Collier
Bob Dombrowski
Finn Bille
N.L. Diwan
Dean Mobley
Marcus Ellsworth
Ginnie Strickland Sams
Travis Kilgore
and others
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
New Voices October 16
Had a great reading Sunday at Winder Binder with the Southern Lights poets. This is the first time Bill Brown has read in Chattanooga in a while.
Now I am ready for more poetry, Saturday, October 16 with New Voices and the Undoctored Originals at Pasha Coffee House in St. Elmo. 6:30 to 8:30.
Now I am ready for more poetry, Saturday, October 16 with New Voices and the Undoctored Originals at Pasha Coffee House in St. Elmo. 6:30 to 8:30.
Oil
Reposted by popular request.
Oil
Ray Zimmerman
7/5/2010
B.P. Drills for you.
Dick Cheney gave them money,
a few million or so
of taxpayer dollars
to assure America’s
energy future.
Denied they were at the meeting
Sarah Palin said
drill baby drill,
you betcha!
So the earth bleeds
oil into the Gulf
killing fish and fishing
directly or by fear.
Insinuation – don’t you dare
eat that shrimp, marinated
in the earth’s blood, in
ancient microbes under pressure
to give up
their energy stored for
our rainy day.
So the earth bleeds
killing fish and fishing
scaring investors into selling
all those condos on the beach
for pennies on the dollar
saved for their rainy day.
Their retirement goes up in flames
flaming tar balls
on the beach,
scaring tourists into staying
far away.
Put that vacation money away
save it for your rainy day.
The governors say
we need the revenue
from oil wells
with tourism going away.
Keep on drilling.
With fishing up in flames,
keep on drilling.
We need jobs
on the oil rigs.
Keep on drilling.
I say no,
stop the drilling,
but I keep driving
my truck,
reports of dead pelicans
on the radio as
I keep driving my truck.
Reports of broke fishermen
on the radio
dead fish washing ashore
still life with sand
painted by an artist,
his oil on canvas rendering
of oil on fish
of oil on beach as
I keep driving my truck.
Oil
Ray Zimmerman
7/5/2010
B.P. Drills for you.
Dick Cheney gave them money,
a few million or so
of taxpayer dollars
to assure America’s
energy future.
Denied they were at the meeting
Sarah Palin said
drill baby drill,
you betcha!
So the earth bleeds
oil into the Gulf
killing fish and fishing
directly or by fear.
Insinuation – don’t you dare
eat that shrimp, marinated
in the earth’s blood, in
ancient microbes under pressure
to give up
their energy stored for
our rainy day.
So the earth bleeds
killing fish and fishing
scaring investors into selling
all those condos on the beach
for pennies on the dollar
saved for their rainy day.
Their retirement goes up in flames
flaming tar balls
on the beach,
scaring tourists into staying
far away.
Put that vacation money away
save it for your rainy day.
The governors say
we need the revenue
from oil wells
with tourism going away.
Keep on drilling.
With fishing up in flames,
keep on drilling.
We need jobs
on the oil rigs.
Keep on drilling.
I say no,
stop the drilling,
but I keep driving
my truck,
reports of dead pelicans
on the radio as
I keep driving my truck.
Reports of broke fishermen
on the radio
dead fish washing ashore
still life with sand
painted by an artist,
his oil on canvas rendering
of oil on fish
of oil on beach as
I keep driving my truck.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Acclaimed Poet to Read in Chattanooga
Acclaimed Poet to Read at Winder Binder
Bill Brown, author of five collections of poetry and recipient of numerous awards will lead off the Southern Lights Poetry Reading at Winder Binder Gallery and Book Store, Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 2:00 PM .
Winder Binder is located at 40 Frazier Avenue on Chattanooga ’s North Shore
Southern Lights:
Seven regional poets share the power of the spoken word:
Bill Brown grew up in Dyersburg , Tennessee .
•Five collections of poetry
•Three chapbooks
•Author of a writing textbook with Malcolm Glass
•Wrote and co-produced the Instructional Television Series, Student Centered Learning, for Nashville Public Television.
•Graduate degrees in English from the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College and George Peabody College
•Directed the writing program at Hume-Fogg Academic High School in Nashville
•Part time lecturer at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
•Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference
•Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
•Two Fellowships in poetry from the Tennessee Arts Commission
Penny Dyer has published work in numerous literary journals.
•2007 Oberon Poetry Prize
•2006 Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry
•Pushcart Prize nomination for “Summer Storm, 1963”
Bruce Majors has published in several literary journals.
•Author of The Fields of Owl Roost
•First finalist - 2005 Indie Excellence Book Awards.
Rebecca Cook writes poetry and prose and has published in many literary Journals
•Two-time Pushcart nominee
•Writer’s residency at Dairy Hollow Writers’ Colony in 2005
•Margaret Bridgman Scholar in fiction at the 2009 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
•Chapbook of poems, The Terrible Baby, available from Dancing Girl Press
•The Terrible Baby has been translated into Romanian, poems to be published in Romanian literary journals.
Ray Zimmerman is a former president of the Chattanooga Writers Guild.
•Second Place in the 2007 poetry contest of the Tennessee Writers Alliance
•Chapbook, Searching for Cranes favorably reviewed in Bloomsbury Review
Helga Kidder received a BA in English from the University of Tennessee and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College .
•Co-founder of the Chattanooga Writers Guild and leads their poetry group
•Poetry and translations have been published in many journals and anthologies
•Chapbook Why I Reach for the Stars, was a finalist in the Firewheel Chapbook competition
E. Smith Gilbert is a pseudonym.
•Published in the United States and Great Britain
•Currently involved in documentary film
Bill Brown, author of five collections of poetry and recipient of numerous awards will lead off the Southern Lights Poetry Reading at Winder Binder Gallery and Book Store, Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 2:00 PM .
Winder Binder is located at 40 Frazier Avenue on Chattanooga ’s North Shore
Southern Lights:
Seven regional poets share the power of the spoken word:
Bill Brown grew up in Dyersburg , Tennessee .
•Five collections of poetry
•Three chapbooks
•Author of a writing textbook with Malcolm Glass
•Wrote and co-produced the Instructional Television Series, Student Centered Learning, for Nashville Public Television.
•Graduate degrees in English from the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College and George Peabody College
•Directed the writing program at Hume-Fogg Academic High School in Nashville
•Part time lecturer at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
•Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference
•Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
•Two Fellowships in poetry from the Tennessee Arts Commission
Penny Dyer has published work in numerous literary journals.
•2007 Oberon Poetry Prize
•2006 Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry
•Pushcart Prize nomination for “Summer Storm, 1963”
Bruce Majors has published in several literary journals.
•Author of The Fields of Owl Roost
•First finalist - 2005 Indie Excellence Book Awards.
Rebecca Cook writes poetry and prose and has published in many literary Journals
•Two-time Pushcart nominee
•Writer’s residency at Dairy Hollow Writers’ Colony in 2005
•Margaret Bridgman Scholar in fiction at the 2009 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
•Chapbook of poems, The Terrible Baby, available from Dancing Girl Press
•The Terrible Baby has been translated into Romanian, poems to be published in Romanian literary journals.
Ray Zimmerman is a former president of the Chattanooga Writers Guild.
•Second Place in the 2007 poetry contest of the Tennessee Writers Alliance
•Chapbook, Searching for Cranes favorably reviewed in Bloomsbury Review
Helga Kidder received a BA in English from the University of Tennessee and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College .
•Co-founder of the Chattanooga Writers Guild and leads their poetry group
•Poetry and translations have been published in many journals and anthologies
•Chapbook Why I Reach for the Stars, was a finalist in the Firewheel Chapbook competition
E. Smith Gilbert is a pseudonym.
•Published in the United States and Great Britain
•Currently involved in documentary film
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