Thus far, and including my poetry inside a bomb. See below.<\/p>\n
I have several comrades in verse with whom I like to commiserate. We delight in bashing the already fractured literary scene, or scenes, belittling ourselves and our vocation\u2014beating detractors to the punch\u2014while bearing in mind it\u2019s a shared passion and we’re damn good. Sadly, a way with words won\u2019t\u00a0 necessarily pay the rent. Despite the reality of the situation, my real and virtual friends keep composing the stuff. I\u2019m currently enjoying Miranda Pearson\u2019s Harbour<\/em><\/a> and Clara Blackwood\u2019s Subway Medusa<\/a><\/em>,<\/a> having recently completed Michael O\u2019 Keefe\u2019s eloquently and variously tragic or comic Swimming From Under My Father<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n Other lunatic poetical friends go so far as to take it on the road! Coming to a (U.S.) town near you<\/em> . . . My pal S.A. Griffin <\/a> has cleverly devised THE POETRY BOMB Tour Of Words 2010<\/a> and according to my commemorative t-shirt, will be leaving Alburquerque, NM to play Austin, TX tomorrow. With all the years I lived in Los Angeles, S.A. is the only actor I befriended. Hmmm. Well, acting is his profession and like the aforementioned maniacs, verse, his obsession. This isn\u2019t the first time S.A. has hit the road. He and the Carma Bums<\/a> (Doug Knott, Michael Mollet, Mike Bruner, Scott Wannberg) toured relentlessly some of the most undomesticated, unsurpassed performance poetry I\u2019ve been privileged to see.<\/p>\n Lately I’ve been working with my son on his Distance Ed classes, tutoring him in his poetry unit, using verse from my own collections to illustrate simile<\/em> and metaphor<\/em>. He detests it, naturally, but we\u2019ve managed to write haiku and free verse and he knows the difference between a couplet, a quatrain and a stanza. I tried to persuade him there’s a close relation between song and verse, appeal to his passion for music but he’s not biting.<\/p>\n I\u2019m spending less time on Facebook (the honeymoon may be over) and more at my own website which is getting spammed regularly, through this blog and WordPress I suspect. Our videopoems-Bushwhack<\/em> and How To Remain<\/em> are nearing the final stage of production as I prepare to go to Salt Spring Island to work intensively with my collaborateur<\/em> Roderick Shoolbraid.<\/a> Three Blocks West of Wonderland<\/em> book launch parties are in the works. We better rehearse our AURAL Heather act as we are planning to perform at said launches. Yikes! With all this behind me soon, I intend to spend the remainder of 2010 focused on writing, though I will be working hard on our Visible Verse<\/a> 10 year anniversary festival and celebration coming up in November. No rest for the wicked, or the poet, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thus far, and including my poetry inside a bomb. See below. I have several comrades in verse with whom I like to commiserate. We delight in bashing the already fractured literary scene, or scenes, belittling ourselves and our vocation\u2014beating detractors to the punch\u2014while bearing in mind it\u2019s a shared passion and we’re damn good. Sadly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[72,83,107,149,191,192,194,195,273,279,320,324,359],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}