Tag: literature

  • Tuesday’s Poem

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    Easy Reader News profiles RD Armstrong, better known in the underworld of poetry as Raindog.  The well known  San Pedro poet started the Lummox Journal, “with the idea that I might be able to sell enough subscriptions that I’d be able to buy stamps for my own stuff, to send out submissions to other magazines.”…

  • Cowboy Poet – Who Knew?

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    Keith Ward performing an original poem at The Pizza Shop and Dry County Brewing Company’s Open Mic Night in Spruce Pine, NC on January 19th, 2013. Ward has been writing poetry since childhood, and he attended his first open mic poetry gathering in 2008.  Since then, Ward has continued writing and performing.  “My only connection…

  • Haiku-Writing Suspected Killer Hunted by Japanese Police

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    The Telegraph reports on a  poetry-writing suspected killer who is being hunted by Japanese police after the bodies of five people were found in a tiny mountain village. The chief suspect is a 63-year-old villager at whose home police found a “haiku” poem stuck to the window. The haiku is a traditional Japanese form, a…

  • Mystic Monday

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    I imagine I should call today Mystic Monday as everything I’ve posted so far has to do with art, poetry and mysticism.  Don’ t worry, I’ll get back on track.  I had wanted to focus on this yesterday in keeping with our religious tradition of setting Sunday aside for prayer and reflection.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t…

  • The Poetry Drone

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      Hector Tobar delves into the reasons behind poet David Shook ‘s Drone in the LA Times: The idea behind “The Poetry Drone” is to buy an actual flying drone — which can be had for as little as $5,000, Shook says — and fly it over some populated place and have the drone rain…

  • Seeking Solace in mysticism

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    ISLAMABAD: Tucked away in the library of Kuch Khaas, a group sat to dissect the poetry of 13th century Persian poet Rumi on Tuesday. Known as the “Mathnawi Circle”, the group members gather every week to read out and interpret select verses, forming a story, from “Mathnawi”, one of the sufi saint’s finest pieces. Shazray Hussain,…

  • Monday Prayer

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    Please Accept My Condo Her cell phone cut my deepest sympathies short. The fault of a patchy connection, she guessed, when she showed me days later and we laughed off our faces at my truncated text. I didn’t know her adequately to ask who she’d lost; we were barely close enough to suffer a telecommunicational…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    Oh Earth, Wait For Me Return me, oh sun, to my wild destiny, rain of the ancient wood, bring me back the aroma and the swords that fall from the sky, the solitary peace of pasture and rock, the damp at the river-margins, the smell of the larch tree, the wind alive like a heart…