Dane’s Poem Links
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Ghost Fishing: Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology
The University of Georgia has just published a stunning anthology, entitled GHOST FISHING: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, edited by Melissa Tuckey, with a Foreword by the great poet Camille T. Dungy. There are poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Hirshfield, Joy Harjo, Brenda Hillman, Arthur Sze, Javier Zamora, and many others. I'm honored to have
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New Poem in The ICONOCLAST
I've got a strange new poem, about the San Francisco Giant's stadium as a metaphor for the psyche, and writing poems, out in the new ICONOCLAST (#115). Something to Live For San Francisco Giants Stadium My Freudian brain is a baseball hawker selling desire, peanuts and home runs to drunken crowds in the bleachers of
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Three Prose Poems in MONTEREY POETRY REVIEW 2017
Three new prose poems appear in the Fall 2017 edition of the MONTEREY POETRY REVIEW: http://montereypoetryreview.weebly.com/fall-2017-poetry-blog/dane-cervine Two of the selections are from a manuscript of prose poems entitled Polishing the Moon Sword, which include 34 poems based on Japanese and Chinese folk tales. They are: Moon of the Red Cliffs Poem of the Body The
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The Guru in RATTLE
My poem "The Guru" was published earlier this year in RATTLE, and just appeared in RATTLE's daily on-line poem on April 24, 2017. Go to RATTLE's website here: http://www.rattle.com/ There's a new poem each day, so scroll old poems till you find April 24, 2017. It includes an audio recording of the poem. The Guru When
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“Earth Is a Fickle Dancer”, new poem in the CATAMARAN Literary Reader
A new poem of mine, "Earth Is a Fickle Dancer", appears in the beautiful new edition of the CATAMARAN Literary Reader (Winter 2016). The art work is stunning, as usual, and there are poems by Robert Bly, Gary Young, and a great interview with Toni Morrison. You can read the poem here: Earth Is a
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MIRAMAR #5 Winter 2017: Reprint of TriQuarterly Essay, “The Manifest Destiny of Language”
Christopher Buckley's marvelous "old school truth & beauty" journal, MIRAMAR, has just re-published an expanded version of my original TriQuarterly essay entitled: "The Manifest Destiny of Language". It includes profiles of four Santa Cruz based poets: Ellen Bass, Robert Sward, Joseph Stroud, and Gary Young — as well as a nod to Gary Snyder, an exploration
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New Poems in MONTEREY POETRY REVIEW
The Fall 2016 Edition of the MONTEREY POETRY REVIEW incudes two of my poems-as-responses to Zen koans in the Gateless Gate collection, as well as another Japanese folktale poem. The last of the four poems is quite different: an odd account of Freud's voyage of discovery. You can catch these and other poems at the
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Fall 2016 phren-Z Online Literary Journal
I've been a part of Santa Cruz' Emerald Street Writers critique group for about two decades. Every two weeks we meet at someone's house, enjoy a bit of wine and sundries, listen to each other's latest poems – for both enjoyment and refinement. A decade ago we published an anthology, entitled Harvest From The Emerald
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THE ACHILLES STONE, in China Grove
Here's a new poem just published in CHINA GROVE literary magazine, about my brother and I flinging stones at each other, and what happened: The Achilles Stone We were laughing, my brother and I, flinging pebbles at each other in the gulley— high, errant arcs holding little chance of damage. Such fierce happiness— pretending to
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New Poem in VAN GOGH’S EAR
Icarus in a Canoe The poem traces the experience of Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis & Clark expedition, and the ways in which his undiagnosed Bipolar condition propelled him along his journey, but finally overran him in the end.