This poem was originally written for my chapbook, "Cosmic American Music", published by Cedar Sigo’s Old Gold imprint. It draws from my childhood on 29 rural acres, once a vacation cottage destination in the early 1900s, where I played in the ruins—old foundations, glass bottles, animal bones, and other markers of the past. These remnants shaped my appreciation for the tension between outward inward reflection exploration via time and space.
Peter Burghardt on "(no subject)" |
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Nationwide Funding for the Arts Announced
"The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce 1,474 awards totaling $36,790,500 to support the arts in communities in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC....This year’s Creative Writing Fellowships are in poetry. These fellowships are highly competitive, with more than 2,000 eligible applications received for FY 2025. The NEA will award 35 Creative Writing Fellowships of $25,000 each, totaling $875,000."
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS |
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What Sparks Poetry: Henri Cole on James Longenbach's "In the Village"
"Jim is not really nostalgic for his past life but in love with beginnings, 'A wish// A wish not to be removed/ From time/ But always to be immersed in it.' Yes, to be immersed in time again, like the boats that come in and out of the harbor, and to feel again the progress of the sun and the splash of green waves, to begin anew, to not be removed, and to listen to the secret vibrations of the world." |
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