April 2005 Archives

Judy Kronenfeld, whose poems appear in the 8.1 and 8.4 issues of The 2River View, has just had Ghost Nurseries published as a limited-edition chapbook by Finishing Line Press. Here is one poem from the chapbook:

Even Long after Grief

how busy
the living are,
waving from trains,
from airplane gates,
how busy the crows
on their flight paths, even
the dry pods of the leafless silk tree--rubbing
shoulders, clicking hips, ticticticking
like schizophrenics--and the long
fingers of the eucalpytus
untangling the tresses
of air

And here are links to other poems by Kronenfeld here at 2River:

Brief Reunion
Dissolution Nightmare
Son
Window Blinds Leaking Light

Podiobooks is the kind of literary site that I hope takes off. Its goal is to podcast books in serial form. Sort of like Dickens who serialized his novels. Subscribers to the RSS feed for each book receive a new chapter each and every week, which they download to their computers or MP3 players. The selections at the moment at Podiobooks are limited, but the site is a great idea and perhaps can bring back the serial novel, this time in audio.

Here are pictures from last Sunday's Spirit of St. Louis Marathon and Half Marathon

National Public Radio and All Things Considered pay tribute to Robert Creeley.

Robert Creeley died Wednesday in Odessa, Texas, where nearby he had been in residence at a writers' retreat maintained by the Lannan Foundation. He was 78.

While living in Buffalo, New York. I read an article in the Buffalo News about Creeley's interest in poetry and the internet. I sent him an emai, telling him I had just started 2River and asking him to submit a few poems. I got an email back in which Creeley talked about his collaborations with artists. He asked if I'd be interested in making those collaborations available on the internet.

I later met Creeley at the SUNY-Buffalo Starbucks. He had just finished a series of poems with Francesco Clemente, the first collaboration that 2River made available. Throughout our work on this project I repeatedly referred to Roberto Clemente, and Creeley always kindly and gently reminded me that Roberto was the baseball player and Francesco was the painter.

When we were working on the Robert Indiana project, Creeley gave me six signed prints by Indiana to scan. We had met in his university office, I left with invaluable art. I later returned it.

Great poets are not necessarily aloof or hoity-toity. Creeley was a real person. Often before we got to talking about poems and paintings, we'd first talk about racquetball or baseball.

You can view these collaborations here at 2River:

American Dream
Anamorphosis
Still Life