2025 is the Year of The Snake in the Chinese calendar. So it’s fitting that one of the found poems … More
Tag: poetry
Exploring Shaped Poetry: Star Man 2025
For the past few weeks I’ve written about the recent generative writing workshop, Visual Poetry: Seeing is Believing I attended … More
Exploring Found Poetry: Creative Expression with Limits
Found poetry is the visual art of creating a poem using fragments of printed words culled from old books, magazine … More
Exploring Erasure Poetry: A Creative Challenge
Erasure Poem & Booklet with Monotype Print and Collage by Julianna Paradisi 2025 In the past I have expressed resistance … More
Exploring Visual Poetry: Creative Techniques and Personal Growth
Visual Poem Art Book by Julianna Paradisi 2025 It’s Sunday and here I am, fighting the urge to post five … More
Watch Video: Julianna Paradisi reads her ekphrastic poem, Capricorn Love at Blackfish Gallery, October 29, 2024, Portland, Oregon
On October 29, 2024 I had the pleasure of participating as a visual artist and “poet” in Artist Talk as Poem, … More
No Leaders Please
“invent yourself and then reinvent
yourself.
don’t swim in the same slough.”
Book Review: Sky the Oar, Poems by Stacy R. Nigliazzo
Sky The Oar poems by Stacy R. Nigliazzo Publisher: Press 53, 2018 Stacy R. Nigliazzo is a poet living in … More
The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski
Here is a lovely bit of poetry written by Charles Bukowski and read by Tom Waits. In case you didn’t … More
Comfortable with the Squishy: Part I
I need to make an appointment for an eye exam. I suspect I need a new prescription. So of course, … More