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Form For All ~ The Cinquain
Good afternoon/evening/morning everyone, depending on which of the world’s time zones you are in. My name is Tony Maude and this is my first time presenting Form for All. A couple of Saturdays ago Fred...
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OpenLinkNight ~ Week 88
The End. Period. Full Stop. I am always challenge on how to end my poems on a strong note. Do I repeat and loop back to my first line, or do I go altogether into a new direction? When do I cut the...
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Meeting the Bar: Negative Capability
Mary Oliver in A Poetry Handbook introduces the reader to a vital aspect of craft, Negative Capability. The Poetry Foundation describes Negative Capability as ‘a theory of John Keats, who suggested in...
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Poetics– a cup of tea with Miss Marple
Have you ever wondered how it would be to share a croissant and a café au lait in a small sidestreet place in Paris with Napoleon, or sitting on a bench in Amsterdam, talking to Van Gogh, his ear still...
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Open Link Night ~ Week 89
Life can take some pretty surprising turns. Four years ago I would never have considered myself a writer of any sort; this despite the fact that a major part of the work that I did back then was to...
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OpenLinkNight ~ Week 90
Has your life ever become such a train wreck that all you can do is laugh and trip over the poetry that is suddenly hitting you over the head with every turn you take? Have you ever spent a couple...
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Open Link Night ~ 91
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant… Emily Dickinson That’s the title and first line of one of my favorite poems by the Belle of Amherst. It has become a mantra for me as a writer and as a man. I’m...
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Pretzels&Bullfights ~ Expectations
When I was a child, there was one Christmas when all my sister wanted was a baby doll. Not just any baby doll, but one that was larger than she was. Santa came and Christmas morning we woke up and ran...
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Meeting the Bar: The Unfathomable
Train wreck at Montparnasse 1895 (public domain) “Catastrophe is indeed already the condition of language, the condition of the ruins of time.” Harold Bloom In the midst of catastrophe we can become...
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OpenLinkNight ~ Week 94
Tiny green buds. Robins in the sunshine. Spring has finally arrived in our shores. Joy is in the air as flower pots, compost and seeds invade the sidewalks. I can now take my afternoon walks and...
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Pretzels & Bullfights: Delmira Agustini
“Their idyll was a smile of four lips…” The era was one of turmoil where in Uruguay, modernism moved across the nation. Women were discovering freedoms previously denied the female gender while...
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Open Link Night ~ Week 95
They say that time flies when you’re having fun, which means that I must have been having a lot of fun recently because the weeks have certainly flown by. I can hardly believe that it’s already 6 weeks...
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Poetics– Bathroom poetry
duck in my rain barrel – pic by c. schönfeld It happens about every second week… I enter the bathroom (in my pajama), slide back the glass door to the shower, (not yet undressed), switch on the water...
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Poetics: Beauty Is Everywhere.
Thanks for being here with us this Saturday afternoon. I can only hope that wherever you are in the world, the weather is as beautiful and inspiring as it is here in Western New York right now. For...
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Open Link Night ~ Week 101
Good afternoon/evening/morning poets and welcome to Open Link Night 101. One-oh-one. What does that make you think of? For many of us, particularly those of a North American persuasion, 101 might make...
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Open Link Night ~ Week 102
Well, here we are on the first Open Link Night of Summer. I’ve stocked some cold beer, some shandy, chilled white wines and iced tea (of the sweet and potent varieties), so we can toast to the Solstice...
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OpenLinkNight ~ Week 103
Shaping sand castles. Running after seagulls. The sun peeking behind the clouds. A perfect Sunday for a family outing on our long weekend except that the lake water was very cold. July 1st was...
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Meeting the Bar: Atmosphere
Welcome poets and Happy Independence Day to those of you from the United States. For today’s Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft we will be reviewing atmosphere, also sometimes referred to as mood....
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OpenLinkNight – Week104
I’m addicted to words, I love how the sound of them, I love their meaning and their etymology. It was the love of words that made me start with poetry. My love had been dormant for many years, hidden...
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Poetics — is this a pub or a mirage?
taking flight – watercolor by c. schoenfeld Fata morgana – chimera – mirage – summer heat illusions – you name it, a blend between reality and a short drift into that blurred space that dizzies our...
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