The rain screws up its face and falls to bits. Then it makes itself again. Only the rain can make itself again. --Adrain, age 4 Great article in Orion giving me hope that there are so many teacher poets changing vision and changing lives out there. Remember being a child? Remember learning to see? To … Continue reading Raising poets, growing poems
Bad as Me: Hanging with Tom Waits
Well virtually hanging anyway in the front seat of a very rusty old car with a great set of speakers. New Waits album, Bad as Me scheduled to drop on October 25th but it's been leaked and Tom's not too happy about it. A spoiled birthday surprise so to speak. I can understand wanting to hear … Continue reading Bad as Me: Hanging with Tom Waits
Cover Junkie
No ideas but in things declared William Carlos Williams with his red wheelbarrow and pilfered plums. But I'm an idea guy and have always found ideas easier to work with than things. And what if we're talking in terms of ideas of things, the aesthetics, the looking and thinking about things in ways which physically … Continue reading Cover Junkie
Jonas Lamb 