*+-I am happy to present to you my first on-line Poetry Workshop the first of a series, designed to whip up your creativity and get you writing, reading, and seeing. THE POETRY OF PLACE What is your place? Where are you in space? Poets create worlds. The poems I will […]
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*+-As I type this, the Moon is void of course in Aquarius. Venus and Mars are conjunct in Aries, the Sun not far behind. Pluto sextile Chiron. Mercury in Pisces trine the North Node in Scorpio. Just got some news that another short play of mine will be published. Already […]
*+-On the message board, one of the gals pulls a Tarot card or two or three each day and sometimes I follow suit. Sometimes I don’t want to know! Today I got a lovely spread and my intention was to draw for *me* but also the essence of the day, […]
*+-I went for a walk in the old neighborhood and I got a slice of pizza and I heard the words “Forgive me” in my head. And in that moment I finally understood that famous William Carlos Williams poem, “This Is Just To Say.” See, I try to curtail my […]
*+-I’ve been reading poetry this afternoon and remembering the time when reading — no — writing poetry was all I did. Reading it was a close-second though 🙂 Reading poetry, having love affairs. 24 years old. And how grateful I feel that the play I wrote a few years ago […]
*+-In my youth, I was a poet. Nothing else but a poet. I could do nothing else. I was incapable. I had no Saturn. I was minus-Saturn. And I found my first poetry class, in college, by accident. In those days, before computers, one stood on line to sign up […]
*+-Be free: Sun in Sagittarius. Love the work: Venus in Capricorn trine Mars in Virgo. Think twice: Moon in Gemini heading to Full and the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse. Hold steady: Uranus stations direct. And the Moon opposing Mercury Retrograde as I type this: what you feel, what you think: […]
*+-When I was in college, I had a creative writing (poetry) teacher who used the phrase “murder your darlings.” What he meant was that sometimes a line in a poem that you are really really attached to… well… it’s just not working and you can’t see it because you are […]
*+-When I was young, 23, I went to a famous Writers’ Workshop in the Mid-West. I was a poet. My undergrad teachers went there (or taught there), including Donald Justice, who took me under his wing. I was in awe of him. After graduate school, nothing much happened. I published […]
*+-Yes, I did paraphrase a famous poem in the title of this blog post, but the line occured to me as I was looking for another “jail” metaphor to describe how it feels to be Venus in the 12th House. I never felt the way Dylan Thomas describes in the […]
*+-Mercury in Cancer trines Neptune in Pisces today so I’m wondering who you’re talking to and what you’re talking about. Do you feel poetic? I think of Mercury trine Neptune as the poet’s aspect, although there are others. And because this aspect is happening now, in water, it is accessible […]
*+-When I was a student at Iowa, I studied with a number of famous poets. This was a long time ago. I was in my early 20s. And although I was mostly depressed and immersed in unsuccessful love affairs, I loved being there. I loved that all of us were […]