Eye on the World
Feast upon the scintillating and salient poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, audio, art and multimedia works in MadHat Annual, Issue 15. We have our our “Eye on the World.”Filed under: Art, Artists,...
View ArticleVoices in Winter: Clare L. Martin and Diane Moore
Wednesday, February 19th at 7 pm the winter installment of the Voices Seasonal Reading Series will feature a special evening of literary readings by poets Clare L. Martin and Diane Moore at Carpe...
View ArticleSee you in Seattle!
Events at AWP at which Clare will appear. See you in Seattle! MadHat & Plume Present: an off-site reading at the AWP Friday, February 28th, 2014 @ 6 pm to 9 pm Taphouse Bar & Grill...
View ArticleOut of sorrow beautiful things may come.
In June, I will lead a poetry project through the Recovery Academy* with women clients of Acadiana Outreach. What I hope to achieve in the nine sessions is to give participants, through structured,...
View ArticleGetting Clean
I took an hour from my day for quiet outdoors. I gazed into the slow current of the Vermilion Bayou from the vantage point of a deck overlooking the bayou at a local park. Thin limbs floated in line...
View ArticleBlog Tour: Process Talk
What are you working on? I am working on a second manuscript of poetry with hopes for a second book. When Eating the Heart First (Press 53, 2012) was done and out in the world, I was consumed...
View ArticleInto the Ground
Let me explain: Love roots. Love thrives. My father was a widower when he met my mother. He lost his first wife to cancer. Her name was Viola, and she was the mother of his first three children. He...
View Article“Out of sorrow beautiful things may come.”
What I hope to achieve in the nine sessions of working with women clients of Acadiana Outreach is to give participants, through a structured, weekly creative writing workshop, tools to strengthen their...
View ArticleSky Burial
Sky burial platform in Dra Yerpa Monastery Sir Charles Bell September 11th 1921 Lhasa Area > Dra Yerpa SKY BURIAL Leave me on open land until bonesong goes unheard and all putrefaction resolves....
View ArticleA poem for my husband as we celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary
Our anniversary is August 4th, 2014 and we will celebrate 25 years of marriage. This poem was inspired by music performed at Acadiana Wordlab on June 21st by our dear friend, James Perry (who also...
View ArticleONE
I have this one life. I am addressing areas that have been neglected and treating myself with love and care, whereas in the past I harmed myself. I have no apologies for reclaiming my energies to...
View ArticleEye on the World
Feast upon the scintillating and salient poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, audio, art and multimedia works in MadHat Annual, Issue 15. We have our our “Eye on the World.”Filed under: Art, Artists,...
View ArticleSky Burial
Sky burial platform in Dra Yerpa Monastery Sir Charles Bell September 11th 1921 Lhasa Area > Dra Yerpa SKY BURIAL Leave me on open land until bonesong goes unheard and all putrefaction resolves....
View ArticleI am pleased to announce
Happy to share this energizing news that I am writing a second book. The manuscript is titled “Seek the Holy Dark,” titled after my poem which can be read here: the blue collection 5: collaboration...
View Article“There is enough milk in my breasts for you, my glass infant.”
Last night’s dream was powerful and wonderful. I had a baby boy, an infant, with thick black hair. I was trying to get him to nurse for the first time, but he couldn’t latch onto my nipple. We thought...
View ArticleUnbound Promise
“After The Reception,” 1887, by Douglas Volk (1856-1935) When she threw the bouquet, she silently cursed. She knew what she was losing— After the stillbirth, she reconstructed herself: bought new...
View Article“secret within a secret”
The blind girl brushes the mare, places her palm on the horse’s neck, and her fingers glide to the small swirl on its flank where the coat’s direction changes. Something pulses between the girl and...
View ArticleTime for Fire: a prose poem-in-progress
stains of our existence we were here and there too layers of our lives we undress, unravel the private vision shared through language through paint, through the movement of our arms, legs, face muscles...
View ArticleEye on the World
Feast upon the scintillating and salient poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, audio, art and multimedia works in MadHat Annual, Issue 15. We have our our “Eye on the World.”Filed under: Art, Artists,...
View ArticleVoices in Winter: Clare L. Martin and Diane Moore
Wednesday, February 19th at 7 pm the winter installment of the Voices Seasonal Reading Series will feature a special evening of literary readings by poets Clare L. Martin and Diane Moore at Carpe...
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