Archive for April, 2009
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Linda Hogan’s “The Avalanche”
The Avalanche Linda Hogan Savings Just last month the avalanches like good women were headed for a downfall. I saw one throw back her head and let go of the world. No more free soup bones for that one. No more faces of friends at the door with doilies and lace, with ivory charms carved [...]
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Carol Coffee Reposa’s “Vegetable Love in Texas”
Vegetable Love in Texas by Carol Coffee Reposa Texas Poetry Calendar: 2008 Farmers say There are two things Money can’t buy: Love and homegrown tomatoes. I pick them carefully. They glow in my hands, shimmer Beneath their patina of warm dust Like talismen. Perhaps they are. Summer here is a crucible That melts us down [...]
Nashville Launch Dinner at Sportsman Bar and Grille for audiobook “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music”
The last step in producing an audio book is to celebrate! That’s what my Nashville Production team did with me at the Sportsman Bar and Grille this week. It looks like a theme park version of those grand old WPA (Works Progress Administration) lodges in the great parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite. The food was [...]
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Charles Olson’s “These Days”
These Days by Charles Olson from “Collected Poems of Charles Olson—Excluding Maximus Poems” whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let them dangle And the dirt Just to make clear where they come from
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Jane Hirshfield’s “Bamboo” from Orion
Bamboo by Jane Hirshfield From “Orion” What exists wants to persist. Even the knock of bamboo on bamboo spilled outward continues. And you who have lived—restless, ambitious, aggrieved. A Walter, a Shirley, a Tim. A Carlos, a Teisha, a Haavo. Do not think it unchanged, this world you are leaving.
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Levi Romero’s “Wheel’s” (dreams of New Mexico)
I lived in New Mexico for seven years in the 1980s. I recall the Saturday night car parades down the main street of Espanola…and have magical memories of Chimayo. I’m glad our National Poetry Month editor Stephanie Farrow chose this poem for us. It brings back happy memories of one of my heart homes. –Janet [...]
Nashville 2008, Revisited 2009…Sightlines Audio Book’s Beginnings to Launch
Last May we began the long journey of making our audio book “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Here’s the post from that time describing my drive down from St. Louis the Nashville. A year later, it’s still a long drive in the country (albeit on freeways) and a pretty one, to [...]
Audio Book Launch Begins in Nashville!
A year ago we started the journey of making “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Music and Song.” It was a long-held dream of mine since “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” came out in 2006 to make an audio with music to go along with the book. I happened almost by chance when I decided to [...]
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Li-Young Lee’s “Early in the Morning”
Early in the Morning Li-Young Lee from Rose While the long grain is softening in the water, gurgling over a low stove flame, before the salted Winter Vegetable is sliced for breakfast, before the birds, my mother glides an ivory comb through her hair, heavy and black as calligrapher’s ink. She sits at the foot [...]
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Naomi Shihab Nye’s “You Have to Be Careful,” from Yellow Glove
You Have to Be Careful by Naomi Shihab Nye from Yellow Glove You have to be careful telling things. Some ears are tunnels. Your words will go in and get lost in the dark. Some ears are flat pans like the miners used looking for gold. What you say will be washed out with the [...]
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