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12 August 2008
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Bertha DeHaas reading at POP VI (photo by Mariel Geiger)
10 August 2008
POP VIThis July, Poets on the Porch celebrated its sixth year as part of the Norway Arts Festival.
The readings took place Saturday, July 12, 2008, from 1:00 to 3:00 on the front lawn of the Norway Memorial Library in Norway, Maine.
Here's who read.
- Greg Zemlansky, Norway
- John Governale, Norway
- Rijah Newell, Oxford
- Bertha DeHaas, West Paris
- Siiri Cressey, Lewiston
- Mary Hargreaves, Sumner
- Eric Dibner, Casco
- Sadie Morin, Norway
- Brigid Gallagher, Norway
- Rockie Graham, Waterford
- Lisa Moore, Harrison
- Ben Hull, Norway
- Tim Richardson and Toni Seeger, Lovell
- Ann Day, Fayston, VT
- Michalene Hague, Otisfield
- Joanna Reese, Greenwood
- Tom Foley, Oxford
- Connie Allen, Harrison
- T. Jewell Collins, Harrison
- Erica Carson, West Paris
09 August 2008
Norway Arts Fetival haikuLisa Moore and I both wrote a bunch of haiku -- a hunk of haiku? -- dealing with this year's fest. Michalene Hague also wrote some.
Off and on I'll post a few.
Here is my poem about the Norway Memorial Library's annual book sale:
Is it July yet?
Of course. See the book-shoppers
Enjoying the sale?
And here is Lisa's:
Books, old books, new books,
Books by the bag, decade, dime,
a winter of books.
07 August 2008
Norway Arts Fetival haikuDawn Nelson, of Henderson, Nevada, and her parents, Gerry and P. Nelson, of Greenwood, Maine, wrote haiku celebrating this year's Arts Festival.
Here are their poems. First, three from P. Nelson:
Yay, came one, came all
To the Norway Festival
It was magical
All good things must end
Steamboats streaming down lake Penn
Please -- come back again
Waylaid by beauty
Senses quenching all of me
as the gladdest thing
Dawn added this note to the waylaid haiku: "You might want to know that 'Waylaid by beauty' was inspired by two poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The line 'waylaid by beauty' is from the poem 'Assault,' while the phrase 'Gladdest thing' comes from 'Afternoon on a Hill."
Now, two from Gerry:
Mooselookmeguntic
Compares only in name to
Pennesseewassee
Water is calming
Pennesseewassee loons glide
Maine, a perfect place
And finally, two from Dawn:
Taps are on the side
Whoever thought you could get
Root beer from a truck
Wood burns, water steams
A boat moves slowly forward
Smoke rises, curling
Thanks P., Gerry, and Dawn. Lovely work -- particularly that last one.
There are more Arts Fest haiku to come.
06 August 2008
The Wonderful Bumblebeeby T. Jewell Collins
With apologies to Joyce Kilmer who wrote "Trees"
I think that I shall never see
A flower without a bumblebee,
A bumblebee who hums at meals
As nectar from the flowers he steals,
A bumblebee whose constant whirr
Sets the pollen in a stir,
A bumble bee so fat and soft
I wonder how he stays aloft,
Who, climbing upward in his flight,
Draws a bead on where to light.
If God can make a bumblebee
Whatever made Him think of me?
Jewell read this at POP VI.