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2013 Poetry Month #3 – Narrow Road to the Interior
These selections are from Matsuo Basho, a Japanese writer born in 1644. He is most famously known for the style called “haibun”. It encompasses prose along with a poem, typically a haiku, about nature or travelling. These are from the collection “Narrow Road to the Interior”, published in 1998 by Shambhala Publications and translated by…
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2013 Poetry Month #2 – Dawn
“Dawn” by Arthur Rimbaud is the second piece for National Poetry Month. This is taken from the book “Rimbaud Complete”, published in 2002 by Modern Library. I held the summer dawn in my arms. Nothing stirred on front of the palaces. The water was dead. Camps of shadows rested on the road through the woods.…
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2013 Poetry Month #1 – My Father’s Closet
“My Father’s Closet” by D. Nurkse is the first piece for National Poetry Month. This is taken from the book “Burnt Island”, published in 2005 by Alfred A. Knopf. 1. HAT As soon as I put in on Brooklyn went dark, but when I took it off my wooden horse stared at me with dazzling…
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National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month – http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41. In celebration, I will be posting selected poems here and on Stone Path Review from the hundreds of books on my shelves as wells as essays about what poetry means, and its importance in culture and society. If anyone has a favorite poem or memories of their favorite english…
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Today’s Music
To wash away the stress that is life, I have given myself to Richard Skelton and Olafur Arnalds. Wading into the pool of ambient, classical, and slightly electronic, my mind is able to step back, regroup, and dive back in. This weekend is filled with poetry readings and other literary events around the Twin Cities…
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Guest Writer – Alan S. Kleiman
Senzing Zen and Stone Path Review presents poetry by guest writer Alan Kleiman – https://www.facebook.com/AlanKleimanAce. His poetry has appeared in Verse Wisconsin, The Criterion, Camel Saloon, Fringe, The Montucky Review, Pyrta, and other journals. His chapbook, Grand Slam, is forthcoming from Crisis Chronicles Press. He lives in New York City and works as an attorney.…
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Poems online
Greetings friends. Just a quick note that I have been honored with having two poems (Fracture 93 and Mirror) published here – http://teestarangeet.yolasite.com. Direct link to the poems – http://teestarangeet.yolasite.com/william-ricci-3.php I would like to thank the editors Dhirendra Kumar Shah and Dweep Mustang for their honest feedback and championing the arts, regardless of borders or backgrounds.
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Going Old School
The book signing today was at a Barnes and Noble. The very first thing we noticed when walking into the doors was the smell. Not a bad smell at all, but something we have lost in the digital and ebook age. The smell of books. The smell of paper and ink. There is something special…
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Poem – Ghosts of Adak
An island named Adak served the military, a distant outpost, aging, succumbing to the wind and the sea. Inhabited by people clinging to their past or starting over they share the land with Ghosts of Adak. Photo and information below from: http://a-great-small-big-world.blogspot.com/2011/08/cities-between-175-west-175-east.html Adak is the westernmost municipality in the United States and the southernmost city in…
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On Writing Poetry
I’ve spent most of the weekend reading a book titled “Sky Above, Great Wind”, the life and poetry of Zen Master Ryokan. Out of the zen masters I have read, I am finding his teaching to be uncluttered, using only the words that are needed to show the path. His poetry is sparse, honest, self-depracating,…