March 26, 2016 by .

Mindful Exercises Reading March 31

Tzivia Gover, author of Joy in Every Moment: Mindful Exercises for Waking to the Wonders of Ordinary Life will speak and read on Thursday, March 31, at 6:30 p.m. at the
Holyoke Public Library, 250 Chestnut St, Holyoke, MA 01040Phone:(413) 420-8101

Tzivia Gover demonstrates skills and knowledge for living your best life and making your days more joyful. Gover shares her knowledge of brain science, psychology, and practical mindfulness and offers simple tips and techniques—including mini-meditation and gratitude practice—to uncover happiness in even the most seemingly mundane moments. Gover is an author, educator, active member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and the founder of 350 Dreamers, an international network of people who dream together for global healing.

More at http://www.tziviagover.com

March 21, 2016 by .

Help Massachusetts get a Poet Laureate

Did you know that Massachusetts is one of only five states without an official poet laureate? The home of Bishop, Bradstreet, Dickinson, Cummings, Kunitz, Longfellow, Frost, Olson, Sexton, Plath, Lowell… And no poet laureate? Ouch!

A bill to remedy the situation has already passed the state house. Contact the senate Ways and Means Committee to ask that the bill is brought up for a vote, and that we have a Massachusetts state poet laureate.

February 23, 2016 by .

The London Book Festival Has Been Kind

EK_Banshees_bookjacket_front_jh The London Book Festival Awarded Banshees an Honorable Mention among Poetry Books for 2016. I am grateful for the acknowledgment of my work.

February 16, 2016 by .

The Greatness of Such Space

Over the greatness of such space

Steps must be gentle.

It is all hung by an invisible white hair.

It trembles as birch limbs webbing the air.

–Hart Crane

February 13, 2016 by .

Call of the Sea

Herons, pelicans, and gulls glide like dreams

through cloud-portals, cloud-porticos, and cloud-porte-cochères

Giotto could have done with his passion for blues and dimensions.

Hard not to love a place always called by possibility.

–Spencer Reese DSCN0705

January 31, 2016 by .

Mountain and River

In my country there is a mountain.

In my country there is a river.

Come with me.

Night rises up the mountain.

The faint longing down in the river.

Come with me.

–Pablo Neruda

January 26, 2016 by .

Ciudad Colon

For all those who have asked me about where I go in the winter, I am showing pictures of Colon, Costa Rica. I live about a half mile above Colon and usually go into the Centro for cafe con leche or errands sometime during the day. It is a writer’s paradise for which I am very grateful.