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For the young who want to by Marge Piercy

Talent is what they say
you have after the novel
is published and favorably
reviewed. Beforehand what
you have is a tedious
delusion, a hobby like knitting.

Work is what you have done
after the play is produced
and the audience claps.
Before that friends keep asking
when you are planning…

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…

The Poet’s Obligation, Pablo Neruda


To whoever is not listening to the sea
this Friday morning, to whoever is cooped up
in house or office, factory or woman
or street or mine or harsh prison cell:
to him I come, and, without speaking or looking,
I arrive and open the door of his prison,

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…

Tony Hoagland, Poet

I found this exquisite poem over on Leslie Avon Miller’s blog and went searching for more about poet, Tony Hoagland

The Word.

Down near the bottom
of the crossed-out list
of things you have to do today,

between “green thread”
and “broccoli” you find
that you…

Sam Hunt, Poet

Sam Hunt is probably my favourite poet, although the competition is strong ... Hone Tuwhare, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Michaels - the last two just happen to be superb prose writers as well.

I’ve been listening to a Radio New Zealand interview with Sam…

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.

…

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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