Enjoy The Ekphrastic Review’s Writing Challenge With My Antarctic Images

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Deadline – April 15

Ekphrastic writing is written in response to works of art. The Ekphrastic Review is offering its current writing challenge based on my images. The responses are certain to be surprising and diverse. TER will publish the winning responses online this month.

I chose these twin images because they’re pivotal in dual series of images, one nonfiction and the other fiction – Antarctica Waking & Antarctica Dreaming. It was breathtaking when we saw it. That ice can look like Greco-Roman architecture still astonishes me. Clearly, I see this image / these images in more than one way … and I’m looking forward to reading about how you see them.

Write about one or write about both, as you like.

Find out how you can participate here.

Plus …

Enjoy my ekphrastic response to Hokusai’s Great Wave here.

Find out more about my poetry here.

Enjoy FRAMES Magazine’s Feature Of My Photographs & Writing About Antarctica

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FRAMES magazine’s issue 7 features a selection of my photographs of Antarctica accompanied by my haibun (a Japanese writing form combining prose and haiku). The synergy between the words and pictures creates a special chemistry. I hope you enjoy the adventure.

Find out more about FRAMES magazine.

Order your copy here.

Find Out How The Great Pause Gave Me The Gift Of Poetry In Lux Magazine

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LUX is Maine Media Workshops’ new magazine and I’m featured in the first issue. Find out how the pandemic’s great pause gave me the gift of poetry and how I started that journey into words in a workshop with Richard Blanco.

Read the article here.

Read more about my poetry here.

Join Me For A New Poetry Reading – Ecopoetry / Voices For The Future

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Sunday, April 10, 2022 – 4-5:30 pm EST

I will be cohosting (with Meg Weston) this event and reading my poetry with fellow Maine poets Kathleen Ellis, Gary Lawless, Iris LeCates, and Meghan Sterling in an intergenerational celebration of our place in nature.

Find out more about these poets here.

Each poet will recommend a book, share a favorite poem by another poet, and read their poetry.

A lively Q&A with the audience is sure to follow so bring your burning questions.

Ecopoetry (a relatively new term) offers contemporary views of our complex interrelationships within nature, often exploring ways places influence culture. Sometimes celebratory and sometimes critical, ecopoetry looks closely at personal sensitivity and social change.

Register free now.

The poets of this gathering recommend the following books for finding further inspiration.

Gary Lawless recommends Henry David Thoreau’s Walking

Kathleen Ellis recommends Carlo Rovelli’s Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

John Paul Caponigro recommends David Hinton’s The Wilds Of Poetry; Adventures In Mind On Landscape

Meghan Sterling John Sibley Williams’ Scale Model of a Country at Dawn

Iris Lecates Bell Hooks’ recommends Appalachian Elegy

Meg Weston recommends Charlotte McConaughy’s Migrations

Please consider supporting your local bookstore by contacting Gary Lawless at his Gulf Of Maine Books in Brunswick. gulfofmainebooks@gmail.com or 207-729-5083

The First Poet’s Corner Open Mic Night – Sunday, July 18, 4 EST

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Join me and 13 other poets for the first Poet’s Corner Open Mic event.

Sunday, July 18, 4 EST

I’ll be reading my poem Marking Territories (a true story of my pissing contest with a wolf).

Receive your free invitation here.

Sarah Kay On The Power Of Spoken Words

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“If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she’s gonna call me Point B … ” began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her metamorphosis — from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York’s Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E. — and gives two breathtaking performances of “B” and “Hiroshima.” Sarah is also the host of TED’s podcast “Sincerely, X.”