February 15, 2015
Stalking the Writer’s Life. Celebrating Dzvinia Orlowsky
A poet I have always adored for her spare and fierce poems, full of precisely honed passion, is Dzvinia Orlowsky.
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February 1, 2015
Stalking the Writer’s Life: Celebrating Kathy Aguero |
How I grapple with my fears about writing about my own book by writing about other writers. Yes, I'll get back to my book, "Love, Sex and 4-H," but I have to work up to it.
February 20, 2014
Cleaning Kill
In the fall, over-ripe pears drop from the trees, and the fermented scent rises from the grass. Sniffing deeply and dizzy with winey air, I stumble on them. Sometimes I pick one up and stare at the oddly mottled green and gold skin. I pierce the soft pulp with a stick. I make little people of the pears with twig arms and legs on the green-brown pear body. The broken
February 18, 2014
From A High Place
On a farm, the most important building is the barn. Barns place the farmer squarely in the middle of dirt and reverence. It is where animals live, and the serenity and stupidity of animals is an experience close to grace. It is where things die openly, but not serenely— stillborn calves, drowned cats, frostbitten swallows. The barn is a place of largeness and work, but the open mows and high arching
February 18, 2014
Keep Clear of Me
Keep Clear of Me; I Am Maneuvering with Difficulty So I have to get drunk over at Art’s where the boys know Barn and leave me alone. I know right away it’ll get around and someone will tell his mama, but I stay committed until I’m so gone I can laugh. One of his poaching buddies says, Bead, I’ll take you home , but I say, No. I say, Don’t touch me anywhere. He backs off, palms up. I toss back my Jack remembering how to keep distance from
May 28, 2010
Michigan Youth Arts Festival
May 16, 2010. Just before lunch, the familiar sound of “Beat It” echoes across the Mall of Western Michigan University’s campus, filling the May sunshine with the contagious Michael Jackson beat. The student dancers, some forty or so, seem to rise from all points of the mall and converge on a clear open area, and in the cool spring air, render an energetic version of the famous Michael moves, the
May 12, 2010
Post reading thanks!
First of all, the May 8 reading at the Top of the Park, in support of Fresh Food Partnership, was nothing short of amazing. There are so many just causes in the world that I sometimes worry about how easily we could overlook this basic idea: FRESH food is MOST important to people who rely on food pantries to support and supplement their nutritional needs. Fresh, healthy food is the