Thanks to Julie R. Enszer who posted these two poems by Jane Cooper. Cooper was born in Jacksonville, FL, my hometown. Being Southern 1 It...

These strangers in a foreign world protection asked of me; befriend them, lest yourself in heaven be found a refugee. Caveat : Emily's ...

I've been working on an anthology of student writing - and emerged from the obsession of page formatting yesterday to recognize a strata...

well it sounds hokey even to me but when November rolls around, I recall the unfinished mss ("The Cottage") that I started a few y...

Obituary Jane M. Cooper, Poet, 1924-2007 Jane Marvel Cooper, poet, Professor and Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Sarah Lawrence College, died p...

"Om Mani Padme Hum" The Meditative Sounds of Buddhists Chants CD.

as I begin my critical paper...

well it's 1:20am EST - time for most people to be sleeping in my time zone, especially if we share Monday morning work rituals. But I...

65 Polish nuns, defrocked by the Vatican, were evicted from their convent by police in riot gear. According to a spokesperson for the Cathol...

If you'd like to read any of my previous Red Hibiscus blog posts, you can find them all here : http://redhibiscus05.blogspot.com/ The f...

I suppose it was bound to happen: my gmail account was compromised and as a result, I have permanently lost access to my email and to my blo...

Speaking of anthologies, Larry Ziman sent an invite to my email the other day, promoting the Great American Poetry Anthology. What's thi...

Thanks to Denise at the New Pages blog for bringing up the question of anthology merit . Although I couldn't find the responses, she did...

Praying from Mary Oliver, Spiritus 6 (2006). It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small sto...

Every love has its landscape. This place... haunts you in its absence . Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide to Getting Lost . I came across this i...

Healy, Eloise Klein. The Islands Project . First. Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2007. What are these islands in the vastness of open ocean and...

Oliver, Mary. Why I Wake Early . Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. I have yet to tire of Mary Oliver. In book after book, her words flow by like l...

Oliver, Mary. Blue Pastures . First. San Diego: A Harvest Original, Harcourt, Inc., 1995. Just as I’d thought that I’d imbibed the sweetness...

Dorianne Laux. Facts About the Moon. First Edition. NY, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. The title poem appears midway in Laux'...

Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging Too much has been made of origins. All origins are arbitrary. |||| I try to...