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Sheila Packa Poetry Blog: Where the Heart Beats
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Sheila Packa Poetry Blog. A blog about poetry: figurative language, spirit, intertextual explorations, patterns, punctuation, forms, great writers, quotes, and journey notes. July 12, 2015. Where the Heart Beats. I'm reading an interesting book by Kay Larson, a biography of John Cage, Where the Heart Beats: Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists. Penguin 2012) She includes an interesting quote from John Cage: "What can be analyzed in my work, or criticized, are the questions I ask.". Hole in the sky.
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Sheila Packa Poetry Blog: To Come Into Bloom Again
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Sheila Packa Poetry Blog. A blog about poetry: figurative language, spirit, intertextual explorations, patterns, punctuation, forms, great writers, quotes, and journey notes. June 3, 2015. To Come Into Bloom Again. To Come Into Bloom Again. To feel the sun draw sap through the stem. To let the spring air shake the leaves. To feel the bud turn to blossom and when wind. Scatters the petals, turn to fruit. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). It makes a difference! Poetry Video: My Geology. Hole in the sky.
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Sheila Packa Poetry Blog: Learn to Use Figurative Language
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Sheila Packa Poetry Blog. A blog about poetry: figurative language, spirit, intertextual explorations, patterns, punctuation, forms, great writers, quotes, and journey notes. January 8, 2013. Learn to Use Figurative Language. The Discovery of Poetry. By Frances Mayes can be a valuable text for poets. I’ve gathered some insights from this excellent resource and present them here:. Expand the sensory perception beyond the literal meaning. Give pleasure or surprise to the imagination. To everything on earth...
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Sheila Packa Poetry Blog: Ecstatic Poetry
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Sheila Packa Poetry Blog. A blog about poetry: figurative language, spirit, intertextual explorations, patterns, punctuation, forms, great writers, quotes, and journey notes. December 30, 2010. What is ecstatic poetry? Rilke's poem, "Archaic Torso of Apollo," ( http:/ www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15814. In a brilliant flash of light, ecstatic experience changes you. This is often described as an awakening, like in this Rumi poem (translated by Coleman Barks). Don't go back to sleep. An ecstatic poe...
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slicer review: December 2005
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A forum for poetry and fiction on the page and in performance. Tuesday, December 20, 2005. I loved being handed these poems. By no means am I fluent in Spanish. I know enough to fake getting by. But the poetry really called out to me, and today, while giving a final, I thought on why that is. Posted by jmcc @ 3:02 PM. Thursday, December 08, 2005. Posted by jmcc @ 10:34 AM. Thursday, December 01, 2005. Ode to an Anthropormorphized Archaeopteryx. Oh, if it doesn’t trouble you much,. Have such tiny brains.
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slicer review: April 2006
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A forum for poetry and fiction on the page and in performance. Sunday, April 30, 2006. The waterfall to run. His hands across the old. Paintings. The mist clings. Pools on his collar and trickles. Down, following his spine. Sentinel gazes at the ochre. Deer and the shadows. Of the hunting party and the lighter. Circles above them all. The roar of rushing water is. The external indicator of place. That keeps feet firmply spaced. On the wet, smooth rock which,. In the ambient light,. Cut into his hand.
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slicer review: March 2007
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A forum for poetry and fiction on the page and in performance. Saturday, March 17, 2007. The Tower of Books is Gone. It fell. It's much more egalitarian this way. No strange sense of heirarchy. Reviews after St. Patrick's Day! Posted by jmcc @ 12:47 AM. Wednesday, March 14, 2007. Short Review of Books I Constantly Pick Up and Peruse in the Store but Have Yet to Buy (in no particular order). The Joy of Cooking. Rombauer, et al. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. I actually read this one.
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slicer review: April 2009
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A forum for poetry and fiction on the page and in performance. Thursday, April 30, 2009. End of the season retrospective. Moments of personal note:. Patrick McKinnon's ferocity in his delivery reminding how to embody the poem, not just read it aloud. Bob Monahan showing how to make small things big and then small again. Amanda Teague, who I dubbed Ophelia Bohemia, showing that gothic poetry has a definite place, especially in a stellar delivery (made me think of Brock-Broido and further back). Jay Benson...
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slicer review: September 2008
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A forum for poetry and fiction on the page and in performance. Monday, September 22, 2008. In which One Finds a Revitalization Effort and a Bone to Pick. It's been a theme in my life that I do best when I have multiple initiatives in the works all at once until they all collapse (end of the semester grading generally) and I have to slowly pick them up and start juggling again. Spirit Lake Poetry Series was started 20ish years ago now. Its aims were(are? Spirit Lake Poetry Series offers poets a visit to D...
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