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Hello, New Birders
A hearty howdy to three new Perpetual Birders. One is a current student of mine and budding poet, Lacey Bodensteiner. I look forward to her comments here! Then there is Mark Brooks, creator of the highly (hai-li?) energetic online haiku publication haijinx. Mark has been very smart about using social media (haijinx is on both Twitter and Facebook); even better, he’s been smart about the work he presents at haijinx. Give it a look! Finally, for this round at least, there is Richard from Blackhawk, South Dakota.Read More
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Perpetual Birder Alert
Welcome to four recently-arrived Birders: Jeanne, Deborah Harris, Claudia Samperi-Warren and Larry Dunning. Jeanne and Deborah are students of mine in a poetry class at University of Denver’s University College. I look forward to reading whatever keen comments they care to make! Claudia is proprietress of the extraordinary blog poetfranksamperi, which serves as an ongoing tribute to her father, the fine poet Frank Samperi.Read More
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Perpetual Birder Alert
Here’s a shout-out to our newest Perpetual Birders. Gillena Cox joins us from Saint James in Trinidad and Tobago, where she writes poetry and practices photography. Novelist and poet Lynne Rees lives in France and is always hungry. (Aren’t we all?) She also maintains a fine haiku/haibun blog called an open field and runs the AppleHouse Poetry Workshop. Finally, we have John W. May, the only Perpetual Birder (I believe) who is also an ophthalmic technician. He blogs at Of Poetry and lives in Aurora, Colorado.Read More
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Perpetual Birder Alert
A hearty hello to our newest birder, Irina Moga, who lives and writes in Ontario—in both English and French—though she began writing poetry in Romania, where she won the prize for poetry debut from the magazine Tribuna in Cluj-Napoca in 1981. She has published two collections, Limita Vizibilitatii (Limit of Visibility) in 1982 and Poemul Continuu (The Continuous Poem) in 1986, both under the pen name Irina Sturza.Read More
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New Birders
New Perpetual Birders tend to sneak up on this little expedition, hanging out on the margins—quiet types, mostly. So I sometimes don’t know how long they’ve been in attendance until I realize our population number has changed. It’s up by two just in the past week or so. Zaina Anwar is a “self-taught painter and poet” (I can’t speak for painters, but as for poets—aren’t we all?) who blogs at the remarkable Indigenous Dialogues.Read More
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Perpetual Birder Alert
A hearty hello to our most recently arrived Perpetual Birder, Grant Hackett, proprietor of the fine blog Monostich Poet and a writer of very spacious brief poems, many of them thriving in just one line.Read More
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Perpetual Birder Alert
A heart-felt Perpetual Bird welcome to Ed Baker—poet, artist, and grower of a most enviable beard.Read More
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Perpetual Birder Alert
Photo: David Witbeck I want to welcome our latest Perpetual Birder, Mario Domínguez Parra, who has no public profile that I can find but who follows blogs in a number of languages. What must it be like to have so many languages? I imagine it’s something like Cortázar’s wonderful book title, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds. Even my fragmentary, overly-literary knowledge of Spanish produces surprising little crosscurrents of thought on a daily basis. Mr. Parra must bob along like a buoy in mid-ocean, the bell in his chest clanging with joy.Read More
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Perpetual Birder Alert
I want to thank our latest Perpetual Birder for joining us on this flight of fancy, the illustrious fiction writer, poet, translator, and editor, C. M. Mayo, who must have ESP because I just last week started reading her colorful, engaging novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. Many moons ago her celebration/meditation concerning Baja California, Miraculous Air, helped to prepare me (more or less) for the intense beauty of that peninsula before I finally came to visit it (all too briefly) just last year.Read More
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Greetings, Miroslav!
Welcome to Miroslav Dušanić, our most recent Perpetual Birder, who joins us from Hildersheim, Germany. He is one of the several multi-lingual, multi-talented individuals who have found their way here and found something–what? I wonder–to make them want to follow the (after all) peculiar ruminations I am prone to.Read More