Addressing the Underappreciation of Poets
posted about 1 year ago, updated 1 day later | 5 comments
This weekend, in midtown Phoenix, Arizona, I was privileged to host a poetry event based on my just-published chapbook, Lives of the Eminent Poets of Greater Phoenix, AZ (Vol. I). In attendance were Victoria H. (the H is silent), David Chor...
ACROSTIC POETRY, and its effect on Civilization
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 2 hours later | 7 comments
ACROSTIC POETRY, and its effect on Civilization
pulled from a Lightless Region by Gary Bowers ("claybo")
Nearly every day, for almost two years, my Artful Poet’s Journal has included one or more acrostic poems. As I created them, I came to be cur...
pulled from a Lightless Region by Gary Bowers ("claybo")
Nearly every day, for almost two years, my Artful Poet’s Journal has included one or more acrostic poems. As I created them, I came to be cur...
Chapbook Production for fun? and profit?
posted over 3 years ago, updated 13 minutes later | 3 comments
On September 28, 2007, in a coffeehouse in uptown Phoenix, Arizona, I fulfilled a decades-long dream of becoming a participant in a Poetry Reading in a Coffeehouse. Ever since I read about the Beat poets, and the Beatnik/Coffeehouse phenomenon tha...
Oh, those c-r-r-a-z-y Journal Pages
posted over 4 years ago | 4 comments
Cath1123 inspired this blog. Her comment on my When Worlds Colloid journal page included "what were you trying to say?" So I took a good look at the image and the words, and had to admit: By golly, this is NOT Immediately Obvious. What am I trying...
The Webcam Invasion
posted over 4 years ago, updated 4 minutes later | 1 comment
Remember that birthday present that OBoyle told the Eons Drawing & Painting, Etc. world about early this month? It is a Logitech QuickCam. I installed it today, to the uttermost consternation of my dear Wife, Joni (permission just now obtained...
The Big D
posted over 4 years ago, updated about 4 hours later | 2 comments
I just had another Death Scare.
My first Real, non-Boogeyman Death Scare occurred when I was eleven years old. All my young life I'd had trouble blowing my nose, and then in the fourth grade it kicked up a notch: airway varied from zero to 10%. M...
My first Real, non-Boogeyman Death Scare occurred when I was eleven years old. All my young life I'd had trouble blowing my nose, and then in the fourth grade it kicked up a notch: airway varied from zero to 10%. M...
The Fire This Time
posted over 4 years ago, updated 3 minutes later | 5 comments
Having passed like greased lighning through most of the grieving process vis-a-vis the Devil's Barbecue in my back yard Friday, I'm no longer angry/denying/depressed/negotiating. Not 100% accepting but getting there.
Friends, naturally an event l...
Friends, naturally an event l...
