6: Bonus! Deleted Scenes & Bloopers: Songwriting! Sylvia Plath! Bob Dylan! Cults! Hot dogs!
Posts in: Writing
1: Never rebroadcast since its original airing, it’s the genre-defying pilot, in which people say the word “accomplish” so many times it stops holding any meaning whatsoever.
4: In this week’s musical episode, Hal Holbrook, fresh off his Tony award-winning run as the Mysterious Stranger, joins the cast to sing about adjectives. (Originally performed and broadcast live!)
2: In this exciting episode, groundbreaking in its use of CGI, I answer the question, “What poets changed the way you thought about writing?” Special appearance by the late John Engman in a flashback.
3: In this “very special” episode (animated, in homage to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) I wonder how I know when a poem is finished. Grace Paley guest-stars.
5: It’s the shocking season finale!
To raise funds to save our gang’s favorite hang-out from foreclosure, I must perform a thrilling leap on water skis over a shark tank!
(And in the episode’s audio commentary, I talk about what I’m currently working on.)
In the spring of 2021, I participated in the ongoing — and truly wonderful — Poetry Mini Interview series.
With summer upon us here in the northern hemisphere, it’s time for re-runs, where episodes of TV shows are shown out of order, so nothing makes sense!
A poem of mine, Time & Times, has just appeared at the always wonderful Selcouth Station.
spine poem #9: hay(na)ku
The widening spell
of the
leaves,
my life corrupted
into song.
Pure,
unattainable earth where
now, as
ever,
testimony is music
beginning with
O…
spine poem #8
“Spring shade, spring essence.”
Song of the departed stranger.
Music, imitations, illuminations.
To be the poet even in quiet
places: Turtle Island, Flower
Wreath Hill, backroads
to far towns…
