I’m a Magpie
I’ve always had poor boundaries. Maybe that’s why I’m always so fascinated (if a bit off-put) when existing neighborhoods get new names and redrawn borders. What makes a place itself, and not somewhere else? What does it mean to be from a place, when the green screen behind you can project an entire library of [...]
1. Sugar snap peas with hummus from our favorite corner store.
2. Tom Clark’s nature poems on Beyond the Pale.
3. Sara Larsen’s Novus.
4. Watching sleeping dogs dream in tandem.
5. Reading Catullus in Esperanto.
Yesterday, Brian and I cohosted, along with our friend Erik Noonan, the first of what we hope will be many outdoor pairings of poetry and visual art.
Next Saturday, May 16th, we’ll be hosting a reading in the garden behind Brian’s studio at 2221 15th St in San Francisco. Come hear readings by Sara Larsen and Jason Morris, visit with Brian’s art , and have some snacks (will I make gougeres? I just might!).
“Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.”
Steve Martin, from “Born Standing Up”
So, last night, I participated in a reading at the Lutecium here in San Francisco. I read a piece that I’ve been working on for a while, inspired by the lives of siblings William and Caroline Herschel and their imagined similarity to the twin gods Apollo and Artemis. It’s an odd little thing, one of [...]
For this extra-special Poetry Thursday, here’s some Horace, by way of Ezra Pound.
This monument will outlast metal and I made itMore durable than the king’s seat, higher than pyramids.Gnaw of wind and rain? [...]
She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flowers Despite the snow, Despite [...]
Menelaus and Helen
IHot through Troy’s ruin Menelaus broke To Priam’s palace, sword in hand, to sate On that adulterous [...]
There’s nothing like a long to-do list for stirring up the ol’ busywork. So, I just went through my November 2006 archive and added the “Nablopomo” tag, just in case the cyber archaeologists of the future need help sorting out which months I blogged every day, and why. I don’t usually like reading through things [...]
I'm a freelance writer and perpetual graduate student living in San Francisco. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset reflected in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and started library school in the fall of 2009.