Folded Word
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[Workshop] FOLDING WORDS: Landscape & Memory
Originally posted on Grayestone Lodge:
If you’ll be in the Lakes Region the first week of April, come write with me on 4 April 2019, 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Meredith Community Center. We will explore the intersection of landscape and memory through creative writing…
The Road to Big Bend
Under an interrupt-this-broadcast gray sky. Headed west toward the quiet edge of Fort Worth the sky gets bigger. Deep in January the land is naked, exposing the razor burn hidden by the green in spring in summer. But winter is honest. And beneath the… Continue Reading “The Road to Big Bend”
Someone Lived Here
Someone lived here once. Someone, long forgotten, subdued this ground, stacking stone and wood and straw in rectangular constructions — a dwelling-place, with stable or cowshed. Someone beat back the yearly incursion of brambles and saplings to keep a vegetable garden or a chicken… Continue Reading “Someone Lived Here”
slowly rising…
slowly rising the winding timber staircase Abenaki Tower ©2018 by Tom Sacramona Tom Sacramona is a poet living in Plainville, Massachusetts, with experiences in both teaching and proposal writing. Sacramona is a member of the Boston Haiku Society and the Haiku Society of America.
Gulf of Finland
Can I use my miles to get more miles? They never expire. Flea market to closet. A calm naked swim in Simhall, then smoke sauna. Have a Lapin Kulta Premium. Find out who’s where. Angie’s singing. She sways and scat sings, the guitar rolls.… Continue Reading “Gulf of Finland”
Yarrow and Smoke
poems by William O’Daly Forthcoming 5 May 2018: ISBN 978-1-61019-602-4 Sustainable Edition: print $15 Accessible Edition ebook: TBA ISBN 978-1-61019-241-5 Global Edition: print $12 Yarrow and Smoke is William O’Daly’s love song to gray valley and starless river, to the parched land where he… Continue Reading “Yarrow and Smoke”
2018 Spring List
Folded Word is thrilled to announce our forthcoming titles from amazing poets this spring: WATERSHED – poems by Jean L. French, April 2018, ISBN 978-1-61019-233-0. A collection that explores the resilience of forest life through harvest, drought, and fire written by a logger’s daughter… Continue Reading “2018 Spring List”
After Rain
haiku by Gary Schroeder calligraphy by JS Graustein foreword by Joseph Hutchison ISBN 978-1-61019-240-8 Sustainable Edition: print $14 ISBN 978-1-61019-112-8 Global Edition: print $12 Accessible Edition ebook TBA In this collection of 32 haiku presented in the Carolingian hand of JS Graustein, Gary Schroeder… Continue Reading “After Rain”
The Magic Rectangle
prose poems by Sandra S. McRae ISBN 978-1-61019-238-5 Sustainable Edition: print $14 sold out Accessible Edition ebook TBA ISBN 978-1-61019-111-1 Global Edition: print $12 With seeming innocence, Sandra S. McRae asks us to “watch how plastic bags and straw wrappers can get caught in… Continue Reading “The Magic Rectangle”
Q & A with Joseph Hutchison
Joseph Hutchison, current Poet Laureate of Colorado (2014-2018), is the author of more than 15 books. He teaches at the University of Denver’s University College, where he directs the Arts & Culture and Global Affairs programs. He lives with his wife in the mountains southwest of Denver. Two of his most recent chapbooks, The Earth-Boat and The Satire Lounge, as well as his translation of Miguel Lupián’s Ephemeral, have recently been published with Folded Word.
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