Category Archives: reading

IONTW – January 29, 2017

Posted on January 29, 2017 by nutMeg

A wonderful story about the power of letters – as communication, for telling your story and making a connection – just a small part of the last administration, but the details say a great deal, and all add up to … Continue reading →

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on visitors and/or visitations

Posted on December 23, 2014 by nutMeg

Jeff Schwaner is one of the poets I’ve come across, or perhaps he came across me, who knows how these things happen out on the intarwebs. Anyway, I’ve been enjoying his visit from Mei Yao-ch’en, an 11th century Chinese poet, … Continue reading →

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dogear this poem

Posted on January 23, 2014 by nutMeg

Sisters’ weekend in Santa Cruz, walking through downtown and can’t resist the bookstore and oh yes it’s a lovely one, new and used and HEY! a press!!! Which the first employee I ask almost doesn’t seem to know what I’m … Continue reading →

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Spineless Wonders!

Posted on January 9, 2014 by nutMeg

One of the many treasures at the Sitting Room are the spineless wonders! I don’t know if I’d have thought of calling them that, but it fits. They are small books, self or small press published, but bound in ways … Continue reading →

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Emily Dickinson – The Gorgeous Nothings

Posted on December 31, 2013 by nutMeg

I went in to Copperfield’s on a mission. To get a card. Just the card. Wasn’t going to look at any books. But then well I was there and I’ll just peek in the poetry section … and yes you … Continue reading →

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One Art

Posted on December 30, 2013 by nutMeg

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. … Continue reading →

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The Sitting Room

Posted on December 29, 2013 by nutMeg

Tucked into a quiet neighborhood a few blocks from Sonoma State University, you might never know an unassuming home holds a treasure trove of books and reference material. The Sitting Room is a reading room and community library with a … Continue reading →

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Pleasure

Posted on October 28, 2013 by nutMeg

I remembered what it was like, knowing what you want to eat and then making it, forgetting about the ending in the middle, looking at the ocean for a long time without restlessness, or with restlessness not inhabiting the joints, … Continue reading →

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The Recognition

Posted on July 19, 2013 by nutMeg

You put on my clothes and it was as though we met some other place and I looked and knew you. This is what we keep going through, the lyrical changes, the strangeness in which I know again what I … Continue reading →

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Moon

Posted on June 22, 2013 by nutMeg

The moon is full tonight an illustration for sheet music, an image in Matthew Arnold glimmering on the English Channel, or a ghost over a smoldering battlefield in one of the history plays. It’s as full as it was in … Continue reading →

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