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It’s not easy
The assignment was to write a sound poem or poem inspired by sound – to hyperfixate on our sonic experience, using the sounds as inspiration, abandoning conventional logic for the no-sense-required realm of poetry.…
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Ponte dei Sospiri
I wrote this poem in May 2016 in exchange for a print of Bruce Bicknell’s painting of the “Bridge of Sighs” in downtown Scranton that connects the Fire Department headquarters with the Municipal Building.…
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no war poem
No one wants to admit to bombing the girls’ school in Iranbut we’ve seen their graves gaping at uson the doomscrollsorderly rectangles dug in rowswaiting to swallow the bodies of165 school girls and staffmost…
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Western People
I’m still a little stunned in the wake of our trip with Scranton Fringe to Ballina, Ireland. Although I’m not blessed with Irish ancestors myself, most of the Irish-American in Scranton can trace their…
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Paradise Found
It’s not unusual for Norman Fischer to offer a literary aside mid-dharma talk. There’s nothing strange about him citing Milton’s Paradise Lost to the Mountain Rain Sangha on the May 3, 2025, “Dongshan Stories”…
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The Ferment: Creativity and Burnout
Two years after opening a file in FadeIn, I finally finished the first episode of The Ferment. This was a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been letting it sit before making some more…
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ICYMI – 2025 Poetry Out Loud
It’s April and that means National Poetry Month! While you wait impatiently for those buds to burst open, refresh your brain with some powerful wordplay recited by some talented high school students! WVIA’s broadcast…
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Recent TnR appearance
This conversation is a couple of weeks old now and will likely sound irrelevant already. Oh well. For the record, there is value in capturing a moment in time as much as there is…
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