Moon behind a cloud
Orion rises in East.
Cloud obscures all stars.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Stream
Stream
Log awaited rain
feeds plants
brings life
fills stream
to overflowing
Long awaited rain
floods forest
breaks down trees
ends lives.
Log awaited rain
feeds plants
brings life
fills stream
to overflowing
Long awaited rain
floods forest
breaks down trees
ends lives.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
UTC Offers Meacham Workshop
For more infor see http://www.meachamwriters.org/index.htm
We would like to once again invite you to the Meacham Writers' Workshop, which will be held October 27-29, 2011, on the campuses of UTC and Chattanooga State, and at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre. The full schedule and bios of the visiting writers are available on the Meacham web site. Just select Schedule.
Also, for those of you unfamiliar with the campuses or the Chattanooga area, there are links to maps on the schedule to help you find locations. Some events have not yet had rooms assigned. This information will be added to the schedule as it becomes available.
If you would like to submit poetry or prose for review, the deadline is October 7th. All of the information regarding submissions is availabe from the Submissions page on the Meacham web site, where you can submit your files electronically, which is our preference. When you submit, you will be asked your preference for either a group workshop seminar or an individual conference. Because of the limited time available to the visiting writers, we will not be able to offer the option of selecting both, as we did in the spring.
When you submit, the system is set up to send you an automatic response indicating your mss. has been received. Unfortunately, many e-mail services tend to block this message as spam. If you do not receive the auto-response and cannot find it in your spam folder, feel free to contact the Meacham webmaster to verify your mss. was received. For your convenience, there is a web form that you can use to contact the webmaster on the Meacham web site. Just click on Contact the Webmaster.
There will also be two open workshops during the Meacham, one on publishing and one on song writing. Participants do not need to register for these events.
Since you are receiving this message, you are already on the Meacham mailing list, so, if you submit a manuscript, answer NO to that question, or you may receive duplicate announcements from us.
Thank you for your interest in the Meacham Writers' Workshop, and we hope to see you in October.
We would like to once again invite you to the Meacham Writers' Workshop, which will be held October 27-29, 2011, on the campuses of UTC and Chattanooga State, and at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre. The full schedule and bios of the visiting writers are available on the Meacham web site. Just select Schedule.
Also, for those of you unfamiliar with the campuses or the Chattanooga area, there are links to maps on the schedule to help you find locations. Some events have not yet had rooms assigned. This information will be added to the schedule as it becomes available.
If you would like to submit poetry or prose for review, the deadline is October 7th. All of the information regarding submissions is availabe from the Submissions page on the Meacham web site, where you can submit your files electronically, which is our preference. When you submit, you will be asked your preference for either a group workshop seminar or an individual conference. Because of the limited time available to the visiting writers, we will not be able to offer the option of selecting both, as we did in the spring.
When you submit, the system is set up to send you an automatic response indicating your mss. has been received. Unfortunately, many e-mail services tend to block this message as spam. If you do not receive the auto-response and cannot find it in your spam folder, feel free to contact the Meacham webmaster to verify your mss. was received. For your convenience, there is a web form that you can use to contact the webmaster on the Meacham web site. Just click on Contact the Webmaster.
There will also be two open workshops during the Meacham, one on publishing and one on song writing. Participants do not need to register for these events.
Since you are receiving this message, you are already on the Meacham mailing list, so, if you submit a manuscript, answer NO to that question, or you may receive duplicate announcements from us.
Thank you for your interest in the Meacham Writers' Workshop, and we hope to see you in October.
Southern Light at Winder Binder
Southern Light Poets Read at Winder Binder, October 2nd
Several contributors to the anthology, Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets, will read at Winder Binder Gallery and Bookstore, 10 Frazier Avenue, Chattanooga on Sunday, October 2nd at 2:00pm. A signing will immediately follow the reading which is part of the One Bridge Art Festival annually sponsored by Winder Binder. Readers include Helga Kidder, Penny Dyer, K.B. Ballentine, Ray Zimmerman, Rebecca Cook, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, E. Smith Gilbert, and Finn Bille.
Several contributors to the anthology, Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets, will read at Winder Binder Gallery and Bookstore, 10 Frazier Avenue, Chattanooga on Sunday, October 2nd at 2:00pm. A signing will immediately follow the reading which is part of the One Bridge Art Festival annually sponsored by Winder Binder. Readers include Helga Kidder, Penny Dyer, K.B. Ballentine, Ray Zimmerman, Rebecca Cook, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, E. Smith Gilbert, and Finn Bille.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Cranes
This was just republished on the blog Miriam's Well. It also appears in Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets, and in my chapbook, Searching for Cranes.
It was first published in The Chattanooga Chat, newsletter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, Chattanooga Chapter.
Cranes
Their voices
call to my ears,
pull my eyes skyward,
Sandhills from Michigan.
Cranes wing southward,
call my thoughts to fly with them
to Okefenokee
or the Gulf Coast of Florida.
They bring their news of winter,
their voices compared to barking
geese, to the bugling
of wild elks.
These are no geese,
their words no honk,
no barnyard bark for them.
It is a rattling coo,
doves amplified 1000 times.
Arrows shot from a bow,
they neither swoop nor slow,
they rocket southward,
abandon me here
rooted to the ground.
Cranes – According to An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols, 1978, Thames and Hudson, Ltd, London, cranes are symbols of longevity, vigilance, prosperity, protective motherhood, and happiness. Various cultures have regarded them as intermediaries between heaven and earth, heralds of spring and light, and sacred birds inhabiting the isles of the blessed.
It was first published in The Chattanooga Chat, newsletter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, Chattanooga Chapter.
Cranes
Their voices
call to my ears,
pull my eyes skyward,
Sandhills from Michigan.
Cranes wing southward,
call my thoughts to fly with them
to Okefenokee
or the Gulf Coast of Florida.
They bring their news of winter,
their voices compared to barking
geese, to the bugling
of wild elks.
These are no geese,
their words no honk,
no barnyard bark for them.
It is a rattling coo,
doves amplified 1000 times.
Arrows shot from a bow,
they neither swoop nor slow,
they rocket southward,
abandon me here
rooted to the ground.
Cranes – According to An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols, 1978, Thames and Hudson, Ltd, London, cranes are symbols of longevity, vigilance, prosperity, protective motherhood, and happiness. Various cultures have regarded them as intermediaries between heaven and earth, heralds of spring and light, and sacred birds inhabiting the isles of the blessed.
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