4/2/09

The Last Island goes to NC




Mimi White has read in Asheville, North Carolina, and had an interview on the radio last Sunday, (3/29) I believe, and you can listen or download the stream for that show here, at http://wpvm.org/nav/archives, click on this post title, then go to the bottom of the page and find the Wordplay stream. (wordstream.m3u)

Mimi White as been teaching creative writing for twenty-five years as a member of the faculty at the University of New Hampshire, Northern Essex Community College, and Lesley University. She was Co-Director of PicturePoets of AIR, a non-profit organization that provides enriching arts and cultural experiences to teenage girls. She has been a finalist and a recipient of a NH State Fellowship in Poetry. Her chapbook "The Singed Horizon" was selected by Robert Creeley as the recipient of the 2000 Philbrick Poetry Award. Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire 2005-2007, she is currently working to reduce the effects of global warming as a member of Rye, New Hampshire’s Energy Committee.

Mimi's book, 'The Last Island," was reviewed here last summer.

3/30/09

April Prayer by Stuart Kestenbaum to be Read on The Writer's Almanac, April 5, 2009






News for this Monday • April Prayer by Stuart Kestenbaum to be Read on The Writer's Almanac, April 5, 2009

"April Prayer," a poem from "Prayers and Run-on Sentences" by Stuart Kestenbaum (Deerbrook Editions 2007), will be read on The Writer's Almanac, April 5th, 2009. That is a Sunday, so I am not sure when that will air here in Maine, but it is good news just the same.








April Prayer
by Stuart Kestenbaum

Just before the green begins there is the hint of green
a blush of color, and the red buds thicken
the ends of the maple’s branches and everything
is poised before the start of a new world,
which is really the same world
just moving forward from bud
to flower to blossom to fruit
to harvest to sweet sleep, and the roots
await the next signal, every signal
every call a miracle and the switchboard
is lighting up and the operators are
standing by in the pledge drive we’ve
all been listening to: Go make the call.



And it is that time, the buds are swelling, thank you Garrison Keillor.

I am reminded of a song sung Ry Cooder, "Jesus is on that Main Line."

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