On Aging

A good friend of mine once went to visit her parents who in retirement were living in their olive farm with chickens and a goat and all the rural delights. She found them high up on the branches of the fig tree, gathering the ripe figs. When she expostulated with them, how it was possible that at their age they should not know what a risk a fall from a tree was, they replied " but we do not feel that we are 78 years old, we feel as... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timarete) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1212 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:45:56 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1211/t/The-Swalllow.html The Swallow

When God created the swallow, a migrating bird that winters in Africa, He started to show him how to build his nest. He showed how to make small mud balls with his tongue and how to gradually build up the nest; but He was interrupted just before reaching the point where He started to show the swallow how the nest should get covered and have a roof. The swallow, half paying attention flexing its wings and ready to fly off swiftly after juicy flies and mosquitoes said... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timarete) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1211 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:45:59 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1210/t/Poetic-Advice-a-Reminder-for-Novices-Pros-Alike.html

Poetic Advice -- Hints and Reminders to Help Strengthen Your Poetry

by Donna... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Karla) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1210 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:37:29 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1206/t/TCE-s-Yuku-BETA-forum-closed-.html
Hopefully, no more confusion!


]]> feeds@yuku.com (Nephologia) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1206 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:36:23 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1205/t/Life-Form-Poetry.html Greetings, poets!

I missed my usual Sunday meander around the pages of SA so am here on a Monday morning (and a cold one! Brr! not ready for this!), musing over a column I read in Northwest Poetry. The editor of five years of this fine journal, David Biespiel, makes his goodbyes in "the article, "A Sense of Form and a Sense of Life." Having ducked the question for years as to the kind of poetry he likes…what led him to publish the poems in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Karla) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1205 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:45:58 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1204/t/Poetic-Aerobics.html

As I've been prepping another workshop for our local writers center, I've stumbled across a few resources for poets that invite us to play in the poetic sandbox…and learn as we go. So I thought I'd share them with SA reader-poets.

• I'm usually not a fan of poetry handbooks, but this one is a winner: The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Karla) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1204 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:04:05 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1201/t/Double-Dactyls.html
  Double Dactyl - wikipedia
  Everything Higgledy Piggledy... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gyrafalcon) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1201 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:47:11 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1200/t/Bibliomania-Free-Online-Literature-Source.html
  Bibliomania
  
  
  ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gyrafalcon) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1200 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:11:56 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1199/t/Found-Poems.html Yesterday I ran across a short poem in an email exchange I had with a poet-friend.

  It went like this:

  Email E-change

  Forgot to add - I don't have text messaging service. Maybe next decade.

  W

  Neither do I. And I never plan to!!!!!!!
  
  K!

  ***

  And finding that little guy got me thinking about found poems in general.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Karla) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1199 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:39:49 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1197/t/August-2009-Issue-on-your-Issuu-net-Newstand-.html TCE website and at Issuu, as of yesterday afternoon.The print version should be available by Monday, if not before.
  
  Eve
  ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Nephologia) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1197 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:36:30 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1196/t/The-Issue-of-Titles.html

  Santa Fe poet Michael Smith and I have been discussing the issue of poem titles on and off for several months. When I suggested he rethink the title of a poem he'd recently written and I had edited, he shot back to me via email: "Yes, you often suggest a different title for a poem, but often I see in good journals that people get away with this. I'm confused.... Yeah, I agree a title that adds is a great thing. Guess I need to work on my title skills!"

  ... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Karla) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1196 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:18:31 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1195/t/Happy-birthday-Wendell-.html Thanks to SA's nifty birthday feature, I see that poet/essayist/novelist Wendell Berry will be celebrating a birthday this week.

  I'm a big fan of his and have been over the years. He's one of those rare writers whose prose is as fine as his poetry, able to make a seamless transition from the most sophisticated of essays such as those in The Way of Ignorance (Shoemaker Hoard) to the simple but profound poems collected in A Timbered Choir,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Karla) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1195 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:13:11 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1191/t/Reviews-of-Canadian-Poetry-Collections.html PoetryReviews.ca
  ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gyrafalcon) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1191 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:27:30 GMT http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1190/t/Ygdrasil-A-Journal-of-the-Poetic-Arts.html http://www.synapse.net/kgerken/ Current issue: http://www.synapse.net/kgerken/Y-0907.HTM
  For comments and Subs: Klaus Gerken, Chief Editor. Submissions: feeds@yuku.com (Gyrafalcon) http://smotheredair.yuku.com/topic/1190 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:11:17 GMT