You know I didn’t wash up on the beach
like some vacant conch shell, emptied out inside
and full of nothing but dead wind. No, no ocean
crackles and snarls inside them, those amplifier ears,
those calcium and protein chests – blow the wind through them
and the music will come. But I am music. I am
wind. My woven witchery has been inside the soul of this island
since time could count and men could be slain
by its clock-hand blades.
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
WWP Poem #3: Nativity Scenes
You are golden, tavern like a womb,
insides spilled apart with lowlight from the
lamps hanging in a scattered flock from the ceiling. You are
backlight and music spilling forth like froth, like foam
over the top of the wall and through the doorways that
lead from bar to dining room. The music and voices
are all around us. Not even that wall can contain the
Friday night joy from the blue-jeaned beer revelers
on the other side.
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Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading: June 13, 2010
From PSH’s website:
“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday, June 13, 2010 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!
Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.
You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!
To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html
Big Tent Poem: Crumple-Proof
You look for my sapience inside
my circuitry. I am
an ensnarer, a woman of neural nets
like fine spun spider webs: silver gossamer
and plastic blue. Wrap that net around you,
and I might embrace you in angel hair or
slice you apart until you give up being human
and become puzzle.
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Writer’s Island #3: The Key
dropped off behind like a forgotten soul
the key, a jagged edge glint of gold
teeth turned towards the surf and
resting in the sand under the glaring noon
shadow voices ride the wind
skimmed from the surface of the ocean
they pour into my ears and
curl up inside
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“The Poetry of Difference” Article on We Write Poems
Greetings!
One of my articles, “The Poetry of Difference”, was published on the brand new We Write Poems community site. In this article, I discuss what the poetry of difference is — it is poetry infused with the “stuff” from the cultures to which we belong.
Go read it here.
-Nicole
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May 2010 Edition of Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading Online Now!
The May 2010 Edition of Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading is online now! The broadcast included poets from Lake Wells, FL, Newark, NJ, British Columbia, Canada, Desert Hot Springs, CA, South East, Idaho, Central Florida, and Columbus, OH — me, reading “Dust”, one of the Asperger-related poems that I wrote during NaPoWriMo 2010.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2010/05/16/may-2010–worldwide-open-reading.
The next show is scheduled for Sunday, June 13, 2010 @ 2:00 PM Pacific/5:00 PM Eastern. For more information, see the PSH Live website.
WWP Poem #2: Meridians
How do you dream? Those keen to scene
find cinema screens inside their own heads. I drip
shadows through the silences between
my fingers. I look for rings of stones – priests,
small gray holy men no bigger than my fist,
born from the mountains that rise in backdrop, a pair of breasts
behind this clearing. Slices of those mountains slip through
the fingers of this forest. If I find no circles, I’ll build one myself,
made out of the scattered strangers around my feet.
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Simone Beaubien Comes to Columbus May 18,19, and 22, 2010
Simone Beaubien at the Cantab Loung
Boston performance poet Simone Beaubien will be featuring at two of Columbus’ premier poetry venues next week.
She is a “decade-plus-veteran of the New England poetry scene” who brings the “arts of slam and storytelling simultaneously to the poetry stage”. In addition to performing, she is the Slam Master for the Boston Poetry Slam and host of the Wednesday night poetry night at the Cantab Lounge. She adds to this list of talents producer and slam coach. I can’t possibly fit everything that this woman does into one post without overwhelming you, so I urge you to go check out her bio.
And you will have not one, not two, but THREE chances to see her in Columbus. She’ll be featuring at Writing Wrongs Poetry Slam on Tuesday, May 18 and Writer’s Block Poetry on Wednesday, May 19. Additionally, she features with a set of ALL NEW POEMS at Writer’s Block First Draft on Friday, May 22. Either way, you will not want to miss her.
All shows begin at 8:00 PM. Writing Wrongs is held at the Urban Spirit Coffee Shop, located at 893 E Long St, Columbus, OH 43203 (View Map). Writer’s Block Poetry and WB First Draft are held at Kafe Kerouac, located at 2250 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43201 (View Map)
You can find out more about Ms. Beaubien at her website, Crushing a Bird.
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WWP Poem #1: Detonate
I am a box of nerves,
a bead curtain of tangled arteries: messengers,
blue and livid in the sunlight. They are
wire sapphires running silent underneath this skin
of clothes. Point to point heartbeats traveling up and down
my limpid tubes, my wonderlands in lapis lazuli.
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Big Tent Poem: Houdini
I believe in chains like I believe in
exits. I know the embrace of metal, and the cosmos
of water: where they intersect, the god of my trapped ankles
dangles me head first into a glass tank filled
with disbelief. Outside, there is a hundred-eyed mass,
a monster, a gaggle of wringing hands. It is waiting
to watch me drown.
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News Update: New Prompt Sites and a New Blog
Hello readers,
I wanted to make sure that you were aware of three new writing communities that have arisen in the wake of Read Write Poem closing down:
- We Write Poems, which is comprised of several former Read Write Poem community members — I’ll be a regular contributor for prompts and articles
- Writer’s Island, which has been reopened by former Read Write Poem community member Rob Kistner
- Big Tent Poetry, also comprised of some former Read Write Poem community members — here there will be weekly prompts as well as mini-challenges
Also, I should mention that I have opened a second blog, Woman With Asperger’s. I began this blog as a way to share my experiences with being a woman with Asperger Syndrome, to communicate with others like me, and to chronicle my journey in understanding it an other autism spectrum disorders. I will be posting very minimal poetry there, and in most cases will try to link back to Raven’s Wing Poetry. You don’t have to be an Aspie to visit — come on over and take a look around!
-Nicole
