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The Corridor, Guinevere: November Butterfly Prompt 13

Today’s prompts were inspired by the Guinevere’s Camelot section of November Butterfly (Saddle Road Press, 2014). While the Section II poems speak primarily from Guinevere’s point of view, we also hear from Mordred, Arthur and Lancelot…

Mordred’s Dream: November Butterfly Prompt 12

Today’s prompts were inspired in part by a series of poems featuring Guinevere’s Camelot, published in November Butterfly (Saddle Road Press, 2014) and specifically by the poem Mordred’s Dream (originally published by Poetry Flash). While…

November Butterfly Launches in Occidental: Poetry, Poetry Movies, Art and Music

THE POETRY November Butterfly Book Launch, Movie Screening, Art Show and Book Signing will be  hosted by the Occidental Center for the Arts this Sunday March 29th from 3-5 pm. OCA is located at 3850 Doris Murphy Court, at the corner of…

Shadow Bags, Joan Swift’s Dark Path of Our Names, and Mentor Dolls on #LivetheQuest 2015

"Of all the writers I know, Joan Swift is surely one of the best at transforming reverses into poems of astonishing beauty and strength. Her particular blend of memory, imagination, feeling, and intellect creates an alchemy that changes the…

Phoenix Eggs in the House of My Father on Tracking Wonder #Quest2015

How could you make moments of joy a sacred priority in 2015?
 What forms will such moments take? 
Doodle, draw, photograph, or write your way into these questions... –Sunni Brown of the TED Talk “Doodlers Unite!” One of my favorite…

Nefertiti on the Astral: November Butterfly Prompt 11

We had some eerie moments when the wire of the mic became somehow attenuated (overheated?) during the recording of a second poem (Nefertiti on the Astral) and in playback we heard a long drawn out garbled voice, as if we were channeling The…