Thursday, April 19, 2007
Kory Ford's Video View of his trip to Sparrows 2007
Take a look at this funky home video of the L.A. to Salida, Co. trip created by Sat. night performer Kory Ford. Also check comments on the last post, Sparrows 2007, etc. There is a great poem by Julie Cummings, one of the Friday night Sparrows performers. Keep poetryspeaking. Click on the picture. Jude
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
SPARROWS 2007 Another Poetry Love Fest
It's great to be recovering from Sparrows 2007 which took place March 1-4. We had great crowds from all over the West and the performers were spectacular. See more pictures at www.sparrowspoetry.com.
It looks like we will be linking to a pod-cast in the near future. Stay tuned. Also may get some video up soon. Right now we need some new poetry. Send some this way. Post on the comments section, please. I'm suffering from post-Sparrows poetry deprivation.
Meanwhile, here's one from me, a kind of "state of the union."
Falling
if rain is clouds falling
this house belongs to
the sky but also to a
friend who smokes
cigarettes and burns
our eyes late into the
night the ionic air purifier
from Wal-mart is already
exhausted from trying
to act like a lung and
under the stars that show
up clearly here far from
our old overlit Hollywood home
i hear the honk of geese
the snort of deer outside
the gate and red-wing
black-birds have returned
to chortle loudly in the
cottonwood outside the
window but inside with the
windows all closed
later than i like my
head and heart swirl
with new ideas that
i think are god falling
carrying
birth in seeds of trees
that grow to praise god
and let us breathe
freely then i too belong
to the sky and to the land
that holds this house
and one day soon i will
breathe freely again
because
god is clouds
i am rain and
falling is my birthright
It looks like we will be linking to a pod-cast in the near future. Stay tuned. Also may get some video up soon. Right now we need some new poetry. Send some this way. Post on the comments section, please. I'm suffering from post-Sparrows poetry deprivation.
Meanwhile, here's one from me, a kind of "state of the union."
Falling
if rain is clouds falling
this house belongs to
the sky but also to a
friend who smokes
cigarettes and burns
our eyes late into the
night the ionic air purifier
from Wal-mart is already
exhausted from trying
to act like a lung and
under the stars that show
up clearly here far from
our old overlit Hollywood home
i hear the honk of geese
the snort of deer outside
the gate and red-wing
black-birds have returned
to chortle loudly in the
cottonwood outside the
window but inside with the
windows all closed
later than i like my
head and heart swirl
with new ideas that
i think are god falling
carrying
birth in seeds of trees
that grow to praise god
and let us breathe
freely then i too belong
to the sky and to the land
that holds this house
and one day soon i will
breathe freely again
because
god is clouds
i am rain and
falling is my birthright
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Sparrows 2007 Plans Finalizing
Neglected this blog to get the Festival off the ground. Please click on the link at the bottom of the page to check out new developments.
Stay warm wherever you are. Burr! Jude
Stay warm wherever you are. Burr! Jude
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Sparrows is Shaping Up
Long time without posting comes from a 2700 mile ride from home. The good news is that Sparrows is shaping up. Several poets are now a sure thing for Sparrows 2007. Some names I can drop are: Don McIver, a champion slam team member from Albuqurque, Jane Hillberry from Colorado College with her erotic crazy Jane poetry, Jim Tipton award winning poet from somewhere deep in Mexico, and Kory Ford a young poet with a hip poetic voice from Hollywood, CA.
Here's my saga and perspective on a Christmas that is creeping up in a different way this year.
Merry Poetry. Wage it, read it, write it, post it, need it, feed it. Amen.
Over the River and Through the Woods
the ride through the snow
was not to grandmother's house
to no house to strange relatives
and no dough and cold ice on
the road just past the mississippi river
santa lives in some other country
this year and all my babies are
in Colorado and all these babies
live here away from thier mothers
like boarding school abandonment here
is like a thick piece of bread waiting
for the knife wanting the sweet
butter of familiar smell
this year i'll be santa claus
and wonder where the reindeer
live i'll stay away from chimnies and
mrs. santa dress in black and decorate
with red reverse the roles, thank those
who love me for sending money
ask god for the car payment
carry my presence on my back
with no place to make cookies
maybe this will be the year
for fairy god mothers and wise men
maybe it won't matter
if there is a santa i believe
in something, poetry for sure
friends who last through all my
downfalls and the goodness that
seems to triumph over economics
and politics like rivers ignoring
their banks where accounts
are overdrawn and the illusion
of funds can be printed from the
internet, good god when all is
said and done it's a cosmic joke
and god knows i love to laugh
Here's my saga and perspective on a Christmas that is creeping up in a different way this year.
Merry Poetry. Wage it, read it, write it, post it, need it, feed it. Amen.
Over the River and Through the Woods
the ride through the snow
was not to grandmother's house
to no house to strange relatives
and no dough and cold ice on
the road just past the mississippi river
santa lives in some other country
this year and all my babies are
in Colorado and all these babies
live here away from thier mothers
like boarding school abandonment here
is like a thick piece of bread waiting
for the knife wanting the sweet
butter of familiar smell
this year i'll be santa claus
and wonder where the reindeer
live i'll stay away from chimnies and
mrs. santa dress in black and decorate
with red reverse the roles, thank those
who love me for sending money
ask god for the car payment
carry my presence on my back
with no place to make cookies
maybe this will be the year
for fairy god mothers and wise men
maybe it won't matter
if there is a santa i believe
in something, poetry for sure
friends who last through all my
downfalls and the goodness that
seems to triumph over economics
and politics like rivers ignoring
their banks where accounts
are overdrawn and the illusion
of funds can be printed from the
internet, good god when all is
said and done it's a cosmic joke
and god knows i love to laugh
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Post-Thanksgiving Thoughts
Poetry is a way of seeing the world. Would love to get some new poetic views from yous. Here's a quick e-poem of mine from this morning.
American Perspective
from an Economic Refugee
on the road
the roots cut
the story untold
the glory nowhere to
be found around
the world a refugee
economic political
hypocritical who
cares unaware of
cold and peanut butter
sandwiches three times
a day we had slept
night after night in
our own bed
Next post from the road. Jude
American Perspective
from an Economic Refugee
on the road
the roots cut
the story untold
the glory nowhere to
be found around
the world a refugee
economic political
hypocritical who
cares unaware of
cold and peanut butter
sandwiches three times
a day we had slept
night after night in
our own bed
Next post from the road. Jude
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
On the Road Again
"On the road again," I sing to myself stuck in L.A. traffic today, millions on the road and me planning a garage sale for the day after the turkey slaughter to put pennies in my pocket and somehow make the car payment. Haven't worked in so long don't know what a pay check looks like any more. I am definately no longer a full time writer, I'm a full time loser, but hey I'm in good company, half of the people I know can't figure out how to live and pay their regular bills in America today. Who are those people who are in a good economy? Maybe it's just that so many people I know are poets??? No, I think it's more widespread than that.
Ads for what you can buy in a store are an insult when you can't pay the rent. People talk about the latest movies, but it's been months since you could afford the ticket. You look everyday, sometimes get a great interview, wait six weeks and finally end up begging the interviewer to tell you if you have the job or not, which he does. A polite, we offered the job to someone else. It's America, coming now to the vast once middle class.
So anyway, we're sellling out, going north to family to regroup, find a way out of this black hole. This subject's not very poetic, but it's real. News yesterday said 15% of N.Y. City residents can't pay their bills or buy enough food. Let's see, the population of N.Y. is around 8 million. That's 1 million 200 thousand people who can't meet their basic needs. What is happening to the richest nation in the world?
I'll be thinking about that in the next few weeks on the road, sold out, wondering what's next.
Ads for what you can buy in a store are an insult when you can't pay the rent. People talk about the latest movies, but it's been months since you could afford the ticket. You look everyday, sometimes get a great interview, wait six weeks and finally end up begging the interviewer to tell you if you have the job or not, which he does. A polite, we offered the job to someone else. It's America, coming now to the vast once middle class.
So anyway, we're sellling out, going north to family to regroup, find a way out of this black hole. This subject's not very poetic, but it's real. News yesterday said 15% of N.Y. City residents can't pay their bills or buy enough food. Let's see, the population of N.Y. is around 8 million. That's 1 million 200 thousand people who can't meet their basic needs. What is happening to the richest nation in the world?
I'll be thinking about that in the next few weeks on the road, sold out, wondering what's next.
Friday, November 17, 2006
Sparrows 2007
We have some great poets coming for Sparrows 2007. Kory Ford who has posted on this blog, Jim Tipton whose picture is here on the side and a host of others. Keep checking. It's going to be a great year for poetry. Just got back from a trip to Colorado and great meeting with the board. We have finished submitting two grants to help us finance some wonderful improvements. Don't miss it. Mark your calanders for March 1-4, 2007. Here's a picture of Kory Ford.
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