untiteled ancestry by devorah major
by Tumbleweed • August 9th, 2011
Koyaniquatsi in the Grand Canyon
by Tumbleweed • June 26th, 2011
Sometimesall is dark & nightsometimes a life of graydazzled by the lightnot blinded by the shadowso I mental mapmy placeand whereI hope to gomirror mappingwhat I doand do not know
Read MoreSusan Birkeland
by Tumbleweed • May 18th, 2011
Today it is sure Susan Birkeland’s poetry will be included in the 2nd European Festival of Poetry. Her sister Deborah, kindly granted us permission. A first poem and its translations.
City Of Love
O My City
O My Lover
Love without envy?
An easy life?
A happy death?
for every thirsty foreign child
friends of friends I’ve never met
smiling fat girls and
uncles in freedom’s lucky trance.
drawing circles in the dry red earth
with the corner of his soft boot.
My mother, slow and old and practical.
The Return of Mercy
©Susan Birkeland
Stadt von Liebe
2nd European Festival of Poetry
by Tumbleweed • April 30th, 2011
After some hesitation we have embraced the idea of a 2nd European Festival of Poetry: Note the date: September 17, 2011, 8PM, Permeke Library in Antwerp, Belgium. Poets from five countries and two continents will participate. The Netherlands: Paul Gellings, Job Degenaar and Catharina Boer, from Germany Wilfried Bienek and Fred Schywek (organisor) and from Brittany, France, Olivier Cousin. I put in a link to his poetic blog. From Belgium there will be established poets, young poets, the city poet laureate from Antwerp, a hard core performer, intimate and wise poets. Yet the big surprise is that it looks like one American poetess is coming over for the 2nd European Festival of Poetry: Devorah Major. She is a former city poet laureate of San Francisco, writes vibrant, moving poetry. She champions poetry as a tool of resistance, works with high school kids to open up their world and has given writing classes to the homeless. Meet devorah major in her poetry:
from: where river meets ocean
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Nederlands: Annmarie Sauer
The multilingualism of the concept still thrives…
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