Once again these are the books that stood out for me among those I read this past year. They were not necessarily published in 2011; many of them appeared decades ago, in fact. Fiction Native, by William Haywood Henderson. Henderson’s gorgeous, delicate, but also ripping first novel explores some themes similar to those in [...]
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Standout Reads of 2011
Posted in Books, Literary Inspiration, Poetry, Reading, Writing, tagged book choices 2011, great reads, recommended reading on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Pieces of Silver
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged coin collecting, connections, letting go, serendipity, tollbooths on October 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
No small thing, the shine passing from one person to another… A poem I’m working on starts this way. It’s growing out of a conversation with a New York City taxi driver in which he offered small “advices” that wound up making a big difference in a terrible family crisis. The other night [...]
Lies and the Ways We Live Them
Posted in Coming Out, Literary Inspiration, Poetry, Professional Choices, tagged Books, Economy, Gender, Marketing, Transgender on May 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Recently I read Jennifer Finney Boylan’s She’s Not There, a memoir of a life, as she puts it, in two genders. It was a good book, but I didn’t really come away understanding the transgender experience, any more than I come away understanding race when I read a memoir written by someone who is a [...]
Something for the Cruelest Month
Posted in Art, Cougars, Literary Inspiration, Mountain lions, Outdoor activities, Poetry, tagged National Poetry Month, The Wasteland, TS Eliot, Wildlife on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had planned a post on menopause, but funnily enough I’m too tired, and too sweaty, to get to that this week. Luckily, there’s always a poem in my back pocket. And it’s national poetry month. A few years back I was in a workshop in which there was a heated debate about city vs. [...]
13 Ways of the Lion
Posted in Art, Outdoor activities, Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged Nature, Poems on January 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
1. In twenty snowy mountains the only thing that lay still was the lion. 2. A branch moved, but it was only snow sliding. 3. Another branch moved, but it was just more snow sliding. 4. The woman on snowshoes only once glimpsed it, the tail slicing the corner of her eye. [...]
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