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Maya Stein. Poet and Kick-Starter

Maya Stein writes the most exquisite poetry ...

I interviewed her, way back when ... and discovered her to be as lovely as she seems on her blog.

I noticed she has a kickstarter project going on.  You might like to have a look…

shopping second-hand, Kay McKenzie Cooke

I love Kay’s poetry.  I interviewed her here ...

Time mocks me as it slides by

turning memories only five years old

into sentiment. Like how I miss

certain people, now gone from this place

with no chance any more

of bumping into them down town.


In the cleanest Public…

Maya Stein - news of her Interview

I have been following the poetry of Maya Stein for a very long time, receiving her poems via the RSS feed, so often loving what I find there. 

And so, I asked if I might interview her.

And she said yes.

You can…

David Whyte, Poet

The discipline of poetry is in overhearing yourself say difficult truths from which it is impossible to retreat. Poetry is a break for freedom.
David Whyte, Poet

How could I resist these words?  Or this idea, It is problematic to assume, poet David Whyte explains, that you can ask people to create and also to behave.

…

Jessica Hilltout Interview - coming soon

I recently spent some time talking with Belgian photographer, Jessica Hilltout ... an interview coming soon, the image just a small taste of her exquisite work.

Also coming, an interview with one of my favourite poets, Maya Stein.

All this in the new year, as I take a deep breath and slow down before…

A note to myself on Yannis Ritsos.

A double smile had come to seal this story; I don’t know if the story will be continued, but I do know that life itself will continue its stories; and maybe some day, Ariostos the Observant will be able to cross the borders of each and every country, by showing a rose for his passport picked from his own humble…

In Flanders Fields, John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

Rain ...

I left New Zealand back in 2003, blissfully unaware that I might not live there again for years, or maybe forever ... no more favourite dog and I wandering the South Island’s beaches and lake shores, the ones we had come to know and love so well as we followed my first husband’s career over 16…

Michael Schiller, Poet - a new interview

I recently ‘chatted’ with poet, Michael Schiller about his work and his life. If you enjoy poetry and interesting people, then you might enjoy reading our conversation.

But before clicking on over, here’s a poem both Michael and I list as our favourite work of his ...

World Music

An American sits at the base of a…

Woman Enough, by Erica Jong

Favourite poem ...

Because my grandmother’s hours
were apple cakes baking,
& dust motes gathering,
& linens yellowing
& seams and hems
inevitably unraveling
I almost never keep house
though really I like houses
& wish I had a clean one.

Because my mother’s minutes
were sucked into the roar
…

Kay McKenzie Cooke, Poet

I have published an interview by Kay Cooke McKenzie over in my Interviews section.

*walking through the Octagon
How can one not love
this drizzle?
Burns’ dark glower
as I rush by
under splattered cover.
Ah, there.  See.  That girl
in the fake-fur,
tiger-skin hat
smiling to…

Maya Stein, Poet

Maya Stein writes the most beautiful poetry over at one paragraph at a time.
I hope to publish an interview with her some time today.  Meanwhile, here is something beautiful from her world ...


freedom

The courts here said no to certain marriage, but maybe
love is always a…

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