For the mother and father who read to me, for the library card I remember signing the very first time before I could even write my last name, for the people I’ve met who loved books as much I do, for the places I’ve been and continue to go in the pages of a book. [...]
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What Work Is by Phillip Levine
Posted in Anger, Art, Building, Community, Fear, Journey, Liam Rector, Loss, Poetry, Presidential Campaign, Truth, tagged A New Depression, Accountability, Anger, Art, Books, Building, Community, Drama, Economy, Family, Fear, Fiction, Journey, Liam Rector, Life, Life and How to Live It, Loss, Nonfiction, Phillip Levine, Poetry, Politics, Politics and Human Lives, Poverty, Presidential Campaign, Presidential Election, Surviving, Truth, Unemployment, Writers, Writing, Writing Community on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In times of crisis, we learn, and love wins.
What Work Is
by Phillip Levine
We stand in the rain in a long line
waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work.
You know what work is–if you’re
old enough to read this you know what
work is, although you may not do it.
Forget you. This is about waiting,
shifting from one foot [...]
When Brevity is Brilliance–Ezra Pound
Posted in Art, Community, Liam Rector, Poetry, tagged Art, Bennington, Books, Commonplace Books, Community, Drama, Ezra Pound, Ficiton, Journey, Liam Rector, Life, Life and How to Live It, Literature, Nonfiction, Poetry, Poets, Ritual, Students, Teachers, The Beautiful Work, Writers, Writing, Writing Community on September 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In a Station of the Metro
by Ezra Pound
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Peace on Earth by Williams Carlos Williams
Posted in Absence, Art, Faith, Liam Rector, Life, tagged Absence, Art, Bennington, Books, Drama, Faith, Fear, Fiction, Gratitude, Hobos, Hope, Journey, Language, Liam Rector, Life, Life and How to Live It, Nonfiction, Peace, Poetry, Poets, Politics, Presidential Election, William Carlos Williams, Writers, Writing, Writing Community on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just can’t write, not now. Too much weight and worry, drifts of sadness. I’ll let others who do it so much better lead me now.
Williams has always brought me peace.
Peace on Earth
by William Carlos Williams
The Archer is wake!
The Swan is flying!
Gold against blue
An Arrow is lying.
There is hunting in heaven—
Sleep safe till [...]
Palin–Fear Grows
Posted in Anger, Art, Bennington, Community, Fear, Liam Rector, Loss, Presidential Campaign, Writing, tagged Anger, Art, Banned Books, Bennington, Books, Censorship, Commonplace Books, Community, Drama, Fear, Fiction, First Amendment, Liam Rector, Loss, Nonfiction, Poetry, Politics, Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin, Writers, Writing, Writing Community on September 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
IS SARAH PALIN A MAJOR CONCERN FOR ALL POETS AND WRITERS?
Before she was elected governor, she was mayor of a tiny Anchorage suburb, where her greatest accomplishment was raising the sales tax to build a hockey rink. According to Time magazine, she also sought to have books banned from the local library and threatened to [...]
Concordance (Working Backward in Sleep) by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Posted in Absence, Art, Bennington, Building, Community, Faith, Gratitude, Journey, Liam Rector, Life, Poetry, Writing, tagged Absence, Art, Bennington, Books, Building, Community, Faith, Gratitude, Hope, Journey, Language, Liam Rector, Life, Life and How to Live It, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Poetry, Poets, The Beautiful Work, Transitions, Truth, Writing, Writing Community on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Concordance (Working Backward in Sleep)
by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Working backward in sleep, the
last thing you numbed to is what
wakes you.
What if that image were Eros as
words?
What would it be like if you
contemplated my words and I felt
you?
Animals, an owl, frog, open their
eyes, and a mirror forms on the
ground.
When insight comes in a dream,
and events the next day
illuminate [...]
For the Executive Director of the Fallen
Posted in Absence, Art, Bennington, Books, Community, Faith, Family, Friendship, Gratitude, Grief, Hope, Journey, Language, Liam Rector, Life, Loss, Poetry, Students, Teachers, The Beautiful Work, Writing, tagged Absence, Art, Bennington, Books, Community, Faith, Family, Friendship, Gratitude, Grief, Hope, Journey, Language, Liam Rector, Life, Life and How to Live It, Loss, Poetry, Poetry Magazine, Students, Teachers, The Beautiful Work, Tom Sleigh, Writers, Writing, Writing Community on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the Executive Director of the Fallen
by Tom Sleigh
In memoriam Liam Rector
The little boy crying out
Weenie Weenie
in self-panicking delight,
waving his little cock
under the banner
of the sun, seemed pure Blake,
all anarchy and energy,
an innocence unfrightened
of itself that shook the lake’s
waters and unsettled
the strained composures
and appointed certainties
of whatever Absolute Speaker
had been ranting in my brain:
Peace Through Strength
Justice [...]
“Father of that silence”–Larry Levis
Posted in Absence, Art, Bennington, Books, Building, Community, Faith, Family, Friendship, Gratitude, Grief, Hope, Journey, Language, Liam Rector, Life, Loss, Poetry, Prayer, Students, Teachers, The Beautiful Work, Transitions, Truth, Writing, tagged Absence, Amy Tudor, Art, Bennington, Books, Building, Community, Faith, Family, Friendship, Gratitude, Grief, Hope, Journey, Language, Larry Levis, Liam Rector, Life, Loss, Poetry, Poets, Prayer, Students, Teachers, The Beautiful Work, Transitions, Truth, Writers, Writing, Writing Community on August 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From “Linnets” by Larry Levis
This is a good page.
It is blank,
and getting blanker.
My mother and father
are falling asleep over it.
My brother is finishing a cigarette;
he looks at the blank moon.
My sisters walk gravely in circles.
My wife sees through it, through blankness.
My friends stop laughing, they listen
to the wind in a room in Fresno, to the [...]
