Category: Poetry
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The Big Poetry Giveaway 2013
To celebrate National Poetry Month, I am participating in the 2013 version of the Big Poetry Giveaway. I am offering up a free copy of my Floating Bridge Chapbook, Lamp of Letters, along with a copy of Nikky Finney’s Head Off & Split, winner of the National Book Award. All you need to do is…
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Hey Writers–Here are some great upcoming opportunities to work with poet Elizabeth Austen!
Ready to try something new? Elizabeth Austen is teaching a couple of poetry writing workshops in February: Poems from Poems: Call and Response “Good poems are the best teachers. Perhaps they are the only teachers,” writes Mary Oliver in A Poetry Handbook. This workshop explores ways to let others’ poems not only teach you, but…
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French sentences return to France!
Today during our hike to Cubservies, I thought it would be fun to stop and write a short impression here in this place, having these experiences. When I was in France last fall I wrote a series of what I called “french sentences,” which were merely a riff on Allen Ginsberg’s American sentences—a seventeen syllable…
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Cubservies — The Hike that Ended as Expected!
Hey—the French sentence returns! 17 word sentences (based on Ginsberg’s idea of the American sentence) written in France about being in France.
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KaNoPoMo!!!
Well,though the novelists have grabbed November (National Novel Writing Month–NaNoWriMo) as their own, in the spirit of prolificacy, I am taking on November as KaNoPoMo (Kathy’s November Poetry Month). In April I wrote a poem every day for NaPoWri Mo; and I had 30 poem drafts as a result. I had as added incentive an…
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Call for Artistes!
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Reading Tomorrow at Yakima Valley Community College, 7 p.m.
Please join me for poems from Lamp of Letters, from my new manuscript, and from Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems! 7 p.m. in the Writing Center of Glenn-Anthon at YVCC. More info at this link: Reading at Yakima Valley Community College.