tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54123411149188004202024-02-07T03:41:13.813-08:002013 Collins Poetry ResidencyThe Midwest Writing Center established the Collins Poetry Residency in honor of the Richard Collins family and their contributions to and encouragement of poets and poetry in the Iowa/Illinois Quad Cities and the Upper Mississippi River Valley. Each year, the residency supports community-based poetry and a regional poet who resides in the six-county Quad City area (Rock Island, Henry, Mercer, Scott, Clinton, Muscatine).Midwest Writing Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02297149609627516439noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412341114918800420.post-24798540827698078422014-02-15T04:51:00.002-08:002014-02-15T04:55:08.428-08:00Residency Broadside Launch<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhayTGde6rQ7neugF18cjXdT_s4ZjICuDiyjZ5DAWAunBN4x65tfyHl5j0K7xI9GTuOMaOFGs1oJdgj2uVloKiHK1p938XXxg5R4n-YkIVypYB1UtJ9OnfcJAaiwyRPtHQhNfHOj2CbR4SG/s1600/RyanBroadside.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhayTGde6rQ7neugF18cjXdT_s4ZjICuDiyjZ5DAWAunBN4x65tfyHl5j0K7xI9GTuOMaOFGs1oJdgj2uVloKiHK1p938XXxg5R4n-YkIVypYB1UtJ9OnfcJAaiwyRPtHQhNfHOj2CbR4SG/s1600/RyanBroadside.JPG" height="207" width="320" /></a>Poet <a href="http://midwestwritingcenter.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-2013-collins-poet-in-residence-is.html" target="_blank">Aubrey Jane Ryan</a> concluded her residency as the Collins poet-in-residence at the <a href="http://www.midwestwritingcenter.org/" target="_blank">Midwest Writing Center</a> with the launch of her broadside poem, "Things to be done at the end of the world." The broadside was celebrated at the SPECTRA "Local Lovers" open mic at <a href="http://www.rozztox.com/" target="_blank">Rozz-Tox</a> February 13. <br />
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The broadside was printed on 110lb gray vellum and designed by <a href="http://www.thatkidwhodraws.com/index.html" target="_blank">Alexander Iaccarino</a>. The Collins poetry residency was sponsored by <a href="http://www.918studio.net/" target="_blank">918<em>studio</em></a>. Midwest Writing Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02297149609627516439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412341114918800420.post-13891823151453929462013-11-09T17:20:00.001-08:002013-11-09T17:20:56.243-08:00Medicine Poet Erin M. Bertram<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here, now, a poem from the beautiful Erin M. Bertram. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Erin <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">is the 2013 recipient of a John Woods Scholarship from Prague Summer Program and the author of nine chapbooks, including </span><i style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Body of Water</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">(winner of the 2007 Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award),</span><i style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Inland Sea</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"> (winner of the 2009 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize), and </span><i style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Memento Mori</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Vanishing of Camille Claudel</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"> (both forthcoming in 2013). A former teaching fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, she has received awards and fellowships from Split Rock Arts Program, Lettre Sauvage, Augustana College, and the Academy of American Poets. She currently teaches English and Women’s & Gender Studies at Augustana College along the Mississippi River, where she co-coordinates the campus Safe Zone Program.</span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412341114918800420.post-89607723901639311402013-11-06T09:52:00.003-08:002013-11-06T09:52:54.404-08:00Medicine Poet Jodie Toohey<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello all. Today, a poem from Jodie Toohey. Jodie i<span style="background-color: white;">s the author of two poetry collections, </span><i style="background-color: white;">Crush and Other Love Poems for Girls</i><span style="background-color: white;"> (2008), and </span><i style="background-color: white;">The Other Side of Crazy</i><span style="background-color: white;"> (918studio, 2013), which contains “Out of the Blue," first place winner of Bettendorf Public Library’s Love Poem Contest in 2012. Her novel, </span><i style="background-color: white;">Missing Emily: Croatian Life Letters</i><span style="background-color: white;">, was published in 2012 and she has two entries in Midwest Writing Center’s </span><i style="background-color: white;">Creative Writing Primer</i><span style="background-color: white;">. Thank you Jodie!</span></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I will write my life,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The days, the hours,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The moments of awakeness,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Free and unfaltering.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In purgatory slumber,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The dreams, forgotten scenes,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412341114918800420.post-43475192680721903552013-10-26T10:25:00.002-07:002013-10-26T10:25:59.427-07:00Poetry as Medicine Questionnaire: Ryan Collins
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">And another gift: some words from Ryan Collins, who was good enough to answer the Poetry as Medicine Questionnaire. Ryan </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is the author of three chapbooks, most recently <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;">Dear Twin Falls</i> (H_NGM_N, 2013). His poems have appeared in <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;">American Letters & Commentary</i>; <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;">Asymptote</i>; <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;">Black Clock</i>; <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;">Columbia Poetry Review</i>; <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;">DIAGRAM</i>; <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;">Forklift, Ohio</i>; <em style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Handsome</span></em>; <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;">iO: A Journal of New American Poetry</i>; <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;">PEN Poetry Series</i>; <em style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Spork</span></em>; <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;">Transom</i>; the Hell Yes Press cassette anthology <em style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">21 Love Poems</span></em>; & many other places. He is the Executive Director of the Midwest Writing Center & an English instructor at St. Ambrose University, both in Davenport, IA. He plays drums in The Multiple Cat & curates the SPECTRA Poetry Reading Series in Rock Island, IL, where he lives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can poetry be medicine? As in: <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes poetry
is medicine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry heals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least it can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does for me & a lot of other people I
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think this is evidenced best
when there are moments of tragedy—local or global—and people turn to
poetry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example: 9/11 turned a great
many people toward poetry—as a means of expressing how they felt, as memory, as
recovery, as a way of trying to address or understand in some way this terrible
event that even now, 12 years after, seems unfathomable, beyond
understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think this impulse is
deeply humane, genetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are trying to
understand our damage & heal after it via language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saying the names of our wounds releases them
somewhat from our bodies, allows us to recover while still recognizing that
which almost killed us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also allows
us a medium to put our minds & our lives & our hearts & all the
triumphs & pain they endure out in the world, into a sort of healing
community, if you will, where we see that our alienations are shared, that we
are not alone as our alones would like us to believe<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dear lord. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are so many.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s start w/ a friend: Matt Hart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of his work is really important to me,
but in particular his poem “Amplifier to Defender”—it’s one of those great ars
poeticas, a poem that I turn to & read aloud w/ the full force of my lungs
anytime I feel in doubt or beaten down or anywhere near giving up on something
(or myself).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What Matt says about the
possibilities/capacities of language & its resulting materials, about
living attentively & enthusiastically & completely, about friendships
& relationships & how language operates to build & sustain them,
just resonates so deep in my bones that the poem has a very real restorative
effect on my whole being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/34722468">Here’s a video of him reading it, so you can see/hear what I mean.</a></span></span></div>
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Wee’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uncertain Grace</i> is especially
important to me, for its compassion & vividness & treatment of loss,
grief & everything that comes with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s a briilant book & she has been my poetry guardian angel for
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frank O’Hara’s “To the
Harbormaster,” Kenneth Loch’s “Some General Instructions,” Joshua Clover’s
“Union Pacific” (really his collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Madonna
Anno Domini</i> is one of my all-time favorites), Arielle Greenberg’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Given</i>, Dorothea Lasky’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AWE</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anything Kiki Petrosino writes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wow, there are just too many heroes to name check.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think Dean Young’s book on poetics, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Art of Recklessness</i>, offers a way of
looking at creative process that provides revelation, surprise, prayer,
communion, exuberance, bewilderment, joy & pretty much everything I find
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Practice—writing,
being generative w/ language I have to be very therapeutic, especially when I’m
writing away from myself. I’ve been
playing drums for most of my life & I find the kind of mindset I’m able to
get into when I’m playing drums is very similar to that when I’m writing. Obviously the mental/physical demands are
very different, but the ease & relaxing of my mind are very similar. When I’m not doing at least one of these
things on a very regular basis, I get swampy, lethargic, grump-city & feel
mostly blah about everything. I read as
much as I can, but working/grading essays takes much of that space. Poems are great in this context b/c if I’m
dragging ass, or my head is in some bad space, I’ll break out some poems I
love, read them out loud & I feel better.
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<!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412341114918800420.post-15878960704122670532013-10-22T20:59:00.001-07:002013-10-22T21:07:01.158-07:00Medicine Poet Mike Bayles<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Friends, I hope you enjoy this poem by Mike Bayles. Mike is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;">a lifelong Midwest resident and the author of Threshold, a book of poetry. He is a widely-published poet and short story writer and has contributed to other community blog projects. WVIK Public Radio has featured his writing.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u>ZERO — ZERO — ZERO</u></span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Across the Nebulae<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A battle through the eagle's eye<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We fought the enemy down<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But they’re not gone<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Intruded through and upon<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fighting hand-to-hand<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Through death, wounds, and scars<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I’m told we won.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">DESTRUCT SEQUENCE ONE<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My crew fought bravely<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Many died<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now I limp them home<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or what remains of them<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They will heal but my soul is scarred<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Systems askew, I will never again<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fly true.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">DESTRUCT SEQUENCE TWO<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Within me remains an intruding creation<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I will fight this sickening infiltration.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">An engineering dysfunction<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Puts my weapons in disarray<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It de-energizes my core<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Depress a switch<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sparks flying without integrity. <u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">DESTRUCT SEQUENCE THREE<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I arrive safely — what they say is home<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Release my crew<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But home was out there<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dodging fire<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Winning every fight<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yet desire remains<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">An uncontrollable flame<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So I return to space<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For one final flare against this fiercest enemy<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I do what I must<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I will be free!<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Please remember...<u></u><u></u><br />
It's just a matter of my internal security.<u></u><u></u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412341114918800420.post-21418300966380836072013-10-16T19:01:00.001-07:002013-10-16T19:01:40.604-07:00Medicine Poet Amber Williams<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tonight's poem was written by Amber Williams. Amber was b</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">orn and raised in the Quad Cities, with a brief detour in Albion, Michigan, where she received a BA in Anthropology. She lives and works in Davenport, Iowa, where her home seconds as my collage studio. Amber is a member of the Desoto Pottery Studio in Rock Island, IL.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ago, before my</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Atheism kicked in,</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412341114918800420.post-14770219073142537052013-10-15T19:14:00.001-07:002013-10-15T19:14:35.599-07:00Medicine Poet Salvatore E. Marici<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hello friends! Today's words are gifted to us by Quad Citian Salvatore E. Marici. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sal's poetry has appeared in Circle Magazine, Off Channel, Slow Trains, Descant and Sweet Lemons 2: International Writings with a Sicilian Accent (Legas, 2010), Toasted Cheese, Descant and others. He has a chapbook Mortals, Nature and their Spirits (Ice Cube Press). His second collection, which will be a full book from Ice Cube Press, is forthcoming in 2014. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>When you enter a Labyrinth you take knowledge, when you leave you have wisdom. This is medicine. When words show music, taste, smell, touch and sight that is also medicine, regardless where the collection of words takes me.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thank you Sal! Incidentally, you can find a walkable labyrinth at the <a href="http://prairiewoods.org/">Prairiewoods Spiritual Center</a> in Hiawatha Iowa. Click on the link above to take a gander at their lovelies. Walk that circle, and find your center. Just like Sal.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412341114918800420.post-65708430824597071582013-10-12T09:03:00.001-07:002013-10-12T09:03:19.950-07:00A Quote<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Heddy Hustedde, the lovely librarian who brings poems to the stacks of the <a href="http://www.bettendorflibrary.com/">Bettendorf Public Library</a>, sends this quote our way:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 15px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part of it is sickly.</span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Be hijacked and medicined by some Matt Hart on this beautiful, beautiful afternoon. I, for one, am most grateful for his reminder that: <i>what I got/ I got/ by sitting still and laughing with my little girl. </i>Listen to a few poems <a href="https://soundcloud.com/zeppo1/matt-hart-athens-word-of-mouth">here</a>.</span><br />
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So, I'm going to sign off and go sit in some leaf-shade with my little love, getting healed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We’ve
got some serious healing to do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I won’t
begin this blog with a laundry list of the horrors and challenges and
injustices we’ve managed to cram onto our pale blue dot of a home. So. Let’s
just do this:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Think
of the real-life thing that scares the bejeezus out of you (climate change,
dying bees, genocide…dangity-dang there’s some laundry).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If
you’re me and you think of this thing, your chest is sure to be cement-block
heavy, your throat is sure to be tight, and your mind is most sure to be so, so
tired of knowing this known thing. And, if you’re a poet, I think you may have
come upon a day wherein you wondered how the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">heck</i> a poem could possible help this breaking, broken, mud-storm of
a place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don’t
know where you are with that question. I don’t know if you asked it at all. I
don’t know if you asked it, then careened right past with fists a-swingin’. I
did not.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I had a
couple years of some pretty deep sadness that looked (and I’m not proud) mostly
like this: drunkenly night swimming in Lake Superior and learning everything
there is to know about End Time predictions. This was not cute. This is no way
to live. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I
surfaced and decided it was best for me and the planet to learn to farm and to
stop reading conspiracy theory websites. And then, wonder of wonders, I had a
baby. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Friends,
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Because
I’m not a farmer. While I will happily grow a yard full of edibles, and while
I’ll happily worship the ground my farmer-friends restore, I’m not a farmer. I
suddenly had this son who was a citizen of the world, and I wanted to show him
a world worth saving. Which meant I wanted to show him the beauty. Which meant
that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I </i>needed to see the beauty. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Which
meant my run-off-the-grid-with-a-shotgun inclined brain needed to get healed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wendell
Berry did that. Goodness, did he heal my mind, that poet who is also a farmer
and most certainly a medicine man (there will be much to say about him in the
future, on this here blog).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So now,
when I ask myself <i>what medicine do I have
to give?</i> <i>To my son, to the dirt, to
society? </i>The answer is never, ever despair. It is never fear (though I
still struggle with both). I want to
join the fight with my huge-drum love and my keen-seeing hope. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poetry is what
gets me there.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bell MT';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412341114918800420.post-5670551638279108152013-10-02T15:41:00.000-07:002013-10-02T15:43:40.111-07:00Another Call for Submissions! A Very Fun Questionnaire!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hello friends.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
The MWC is seeking your poems <i>and also</i> your answers! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
(Yes, I <i>do</i> think a poem is most definitely an answer, but these are particular answers to particular questions. Which I will now tell you about!)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
We'd like to hear your thoughts on the topic of Poetry as Medicine. Below you'll find a pleasantly brief questionnaire to get you started. Feel free to answer some/all of the questions, or just send us your own answers to your <i>own</i> questions on the topic.</span><br />
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Thank you, thank you.</span><br />
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<!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412341114918800420.post-29786329877663812112013-09-14T05:23:00.000-07:002013-09-14T05:54:30.680-07:00The 2013 Collins poet-in-residence is Aubrey Ryan<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Aubrey Ryan has been selected to serve as the 2013 Collins poet-in-residence for the </span><a href="http://www.midwestwritingcenter.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Midwest Writing Center</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. Her poems </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">have appeared in
<i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12181945-best-new-poets-2011" target="_blank">Best New Poets</a></i>, <i><a href="http://anti-poetry.com/anti/ryanau/" target="_blank">Anti</a></i>-, <i><a href="http://www.phantomlimbpress.com/phantom_limb/Issue_7_Spring_2013/aubrey_ryan.html" target="_blank">Phantom Limb</a></i>, <i>Quarterly West</i>, <i>Squat Birth Journal</i>,
<i>DIAGRAM</i>, <i><a href="http://www.cellpoems.org/author/aubrey-ryan/" target="_blank">Cellpoems</a></i>, <i>Pebble Lake Review</i>, and The Iowa Midwives Association's
"Born at Home" Calendar. She was also the winner of a <a href="http://www.tupelopress.org/poetryproj_201202.php" target="_blank">Tupelo Press Poetry Project</a>
award, and the <a href="http://booth.butler.edu/news/" target="_blank">2012 Booth Poetry Award</a>. Aubrey serves as poetry editor at <a href="http://sundoglit.com/masthead/" target="_blank"><i>Sundog Lit</i></a>
and runs a (very) fledgling broadside press. She lives in Iowa with her sweet
husband and sweet </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">kid.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">During the poetry residency that begins in October, Aubrey will facilitate poetry workshops, a community poetry reading, and a poetry ezine. Through the residency, she will encourage community-based poets who
are developing their craft outside of a formal academic setting, and to provide
a forum to showcase their work through the residency’s online poetry journal and
a public reading of their poems. She will also release a limited edition broadside of one of her poems produced by illustrator, <a href="http://www.thatkidwhodraws.com/" target="_blank">Alex Iaccarino</a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">. <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The biannual Collins Poetry Residency is sponsored by <a href="http://www.918studio.net/" target="_blank">918<i>studio</i></a> of LeClaire. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412341114918800420.post-48887343100099573992013-04-13T15:06:00.002-07:002013-04-13T15:06:58.625-07:002013 Collins Poetry Residency - Now Accepting Applications<span style="font-family: Cambria;">The Midwest Writing Center is currently seeking applications to be the 2013 Collins Poet-in-Residence. The Collins Poetry Residency is established in honor of the Richard Collins family and their contributions to and encouragement of poets and poetry in the Iowa/Illinois Quad Cities and the Upper Mississippi River Valley. The residency supports community-based poetry and a regional poet who has not yet published a full-length poetry collection and who resides in the six-county Quad City area (Rock Island, Henry, Mercer, Scott, Clinton, and Muscatine). The residency is coordinated by the Midwest Writing Center and will take place over the month of October 2013. <b><a href="http://www.midwestwritingcenter.org/RedesignedSite/Events/CollinsPoetryResZiegler.htm" target="_blank">Applications are being accepted January 1, 2013 through March 31, 2013</a>. </b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0