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00Category Archives: Poetry
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00| THANK YOU KATHRYN |
I wanted to share with you a poem that someone wrote to me. Also shared is a poem in response. I’m so happy for the amazing support from fellow poets and writers. Thank you. This is true poetry advocacy. I’m thankful and humbled. EARLY SUMMER FRUIT for Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua he says he wants a [...]
| YES, SOMETIMES I DO TEAR UP |
The Room and the World By Stephen Dunn The room was room enough for one or maybe two if the two had just discovered each other and were one. Outside of the room was the world which had a key to the room, and knowing a little about the world he knew how pointless it [...]
| SIT STILL – POEMS IN A BOX |
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| INSIDE |
A poem in celebration of a poetry reading with Bette Lynch Husted and Jana Zvibleman for the Oregon Poetry Association Eugene/Springfield Chapter and Springfield Public Library – Poetry Reading Series. Date: 23 October 2012 Please click on the image below to view the poem. 00
| INSIDE OF A ROOM |
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXm_NZDE_HE?rel=0&w=640&h=360] A poem written in celebration of tonight’s reading at the Springfield Public Library. Thank you Nancy Carol Moody and Sharon Munson for making way for my poems to be shared to a wider audience. 00
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A poetry project for 2013 00
| REPARATIONS |
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| POETRY READING – OCTOBER 23, 2012 |
Hi friends. Come if you can. 00
| NUEVO INMIGRANTE |
Nuevo Inmigrante Ha de ver sido la grieta en el lado de su cabeza que hizo que pudiera dejar los años esperando en frente de la puerta, semáforo rojo tras semáforo rojo, madre tras madre. Una década de autorización cartas traducidas de coptico a ingles, A chino a vete a la mierda. Quizás los huesos [...]
| THERE, CRUMPLED |
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| DEAR GARDENER |
Oh these piles and piles of leaves crawling into each other, dry. In the shape of a community in brittle-soft distress, decomposition into beauty into nests into dust into ash. This is the pause of nature, this is the breath of life. This is a portrait of you looking into yourself. sam roderick roxas-chua 9.20.2012 [...]
| PRESS |
Pressed Leaf You point to the great catalpa and say, Its leaves don’t just fall, they are offered. The process of giving takes a year, sometimes a whole lifetime. An unmarried botanist can tell you why. She may even offer you lapsang souchong, the most quiet of teas. Examine how unnatural flattened things are, it [...]
| FIVE ATMOSPHERES |
— FIVE ATMOSPHERES Ah, Thursday. You’ve come to break the weekend bread. We are ready, flowers in our shirt pocket, suitcase packed, life engaged to five atmospheres towards Eden. (c) Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua — [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAAEs4Um-IU?rel=0&w=853&h=480] 00
| LEFT OVER |
| LEFT OVER | Three poems for the back of your throat. Hope Abbey, Owl Blood, and Mudra (c) 2012 Sitstill Press 00
| WHAT THE RIVER BRINGS – BOOK LAUNCH READING |
Come hear and see and hear what the river has to say! [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/46518983 w=500&h=281] TODAY! AUGUST 18, 2012 @ 5PM TSUNAMI BOOKS- 2585 Willamette St. Eugene, OR. Readers: Jenny Root, Toni Hanner, Tim Whitsel, Ingrid Wendt, Carter McKenzie, Cecelia Hagen, Laura LeHew, Erik Muller, Cathy McGuire, Charles Thielman, John Witte, Claudia Lapp, CE Rosenow, Maxine Scates [...]
POETS HOUSE | 2012 POETS SHOWCASE – 25 Anniversary
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| LARGE-SMALL LOVES |
Sometimes it’s ok to ask a tree to bend a branch or two, even more ok to demand it with your afternoon voice holding a half-eaten limb of rabbit or squirrel, or whatever children find in the forest these days. Trouble is not in the disagreement, sometimes it’s ok to lose a search or lose [...]
