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Dementia Blog – Susan Schultz

Susan Schultz is a poet, critic, publisher and Professor of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her focus is modern and contemporary poetry, American literature, and creative writing. She has lived in Hawaii since 1990. Author of four collections of poems, a...

Jerome Rothenberg Nov 2001 Interview

In the first part of a November 2001 interview, Jerome Rothenberg discussed his early introduction to the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, Lorca’s use of the word duende, a kind of Spanish troll or fairy which Lorca used as a kind of force in which the...

59. Sisuitl (Si’sEyul)

I read this poem Tuesday at the Wedgewood Ale House to good response and so am posting it here. Yes, it’s another in the Haibun de la Serna series, of which I envision 99. It’s also part of the ongoing Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia. Give a listen....

The Last of the 2012 American Sentences

It is one of the worst feelings I ever get and most poets have experienced it at one time or another. The lost poem. I remember Ed Dorn at the Spokane Library less than a year before his death talking about losing poems that were the best he’d ever written....