Gary Snyder speaks, poet via video link
+ Poetic Convo & Reading w/ hero Gary Snyder + Legendary poet and naturalist and my personal hero, Gary Snyder […]
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“Ahead by a Century” for poet Gord (on ukulele)
For “the man who walks among the stars” the great poet Gord Downia on anniversary of his untimely passing with
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Museum / Exhibit: Shinse Kinenkan / Kanazawa, 2019 (feat. traditional apothecary)
Basics about Shinse Kinenkan: This culture and folk art museum in Kanazawa, Ishikawa-ken (visited on our Shinkonryoko Ramble in May/June
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Personal Musings
Musing: fires, volcanos, axe handles & cycle of children
March 13, 2022: I went to sleep last night – first night without a fire in the stove for some
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Writing Life
Aside: Steven Heighton, Governor General’s Literary Award-winning poet, dead at 60
I keep thinking about this poet, he was a dashing Canadian “award winning” (though I’m not sure what those words
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Quote: “A poet makes himself a visionary” Rimbaud
“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of
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Notes to Future Self, Writing Life
Quote: “book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse,…” Baudelaire
“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude
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Kinfolk + Pals
Memento: Trevor and Me and beards and dreams and specs
Via my pal Trevor: Old and grainy. Fell out of a plant identification book my son was looking at. The non-bearded
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Writing Life
Have You Ever Seen Anyone Like Cody Pomeray? Robert Hunter
Have You Ever Seen Anyone Like Cody Pomeray? · Robert Hunter Kerouac – Kicks Joy Darkness (a Spoken Word Tribute
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Libraries / Museums / Archives, Writing Life
Angus MacLise – The Kathmandu Cycle | Sea Urchin Editions
This cassette is SOLD OUT, but i want it and to learn more about Angus MacLise, ergo:: American poet, percussionist,
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Writing Life
Quote: J. Kerouac, I needed solitude and just stop the machine of “thinking”
…I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of “thinking” and “enjoying” what they
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Writing Life
Quote: F. Kahlo (lies, hope, coffee and poetry)
“You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.” Frida Kahlo
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Writing Life
Quote: G. Snyder (Wildness)
“Civilizations east and west have long been on a collision course with wild nature, and now the developed nations in
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Writing Life
Quote: J. Garcia, re: J. Kerouac
More Jack #Kerouac riffs – this one from the mighty Jerry Garcia  “I can’t separate who I am now
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Writing Life
Quote: T. Van Zandt, regarding the present, love and naps
“Humans can’t live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So
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Writing Life
Note: Regarding L. Cohen / rain-coated, battered hat…
he (L. Cohen) always imagined himself as a writer,… “rain-coated, battered hat pulled low above intense eyes, a history of
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