Dane’s Poem Links

  • CHANGING HARM TO HARMONY Anthology

    Joseph Zaccardi, as Poet Laureate of Marin County in California, edited this anthology of “poem, letters & other writings” entitled CHANGING HARM TO HARMONY – Bullies & Bystanders Project (2015). Included is my poem, THE RODEO: The Rodeo The Mariposa County Fair is a small affair tucked into the Sierra Nevada mountains where my mother

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  • THE BORDER CROSSED US Poetry Anthology (Vagabond Press)

    With an introduction by Los Angeles Poet Laureate, Luis J. Rodriguez, this anthology by Mark Lipman also includes 2 poems of mine, as well as poems by two other Santa Cruz poets – Adela Najarro & Doren Robbins. It’s a diverse and compelling collection: http://www.vagabondbooks.net/p/blog-page_13.html You can read my two contributions here: While Listening to

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  • Veils, Halos & Shackles – Poem in New Anthology

    VEILS, HALOS & SHACKLES, is described as the first-ever anthology of international poetry specifically addressing the oppression and empowerment of women, includes over 250 poems by poets from dozens of countries. It includes my poem, STARING AT THE HEADLINES, about the role of allies and journalism in speaking out. The book is an important and

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  • 3 Poems in “phren-Z”

    Three new poems appear in phren-Z, the online literary magazine for Santa Cruz writers. The poems are, Spiritual Pandhandling; Pink Roses; One Life Worth Living. You can read them here, and check out other great writers while you're at it, or below: http://phren-z.org/Fall2015/dane_cervine.html   Spiritual Panhandling   A one-legged Tibetan monk on a single crutch

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  • SUMO IN MILAN at Split Rock Review

    A new poem of mine, SUMO IN MILAN, appears at Split Rock Review….including an audio link as I read the poem aloud. Check it out here: Split Rock Review – Dane Cervine   Sumo in Milan   In Oakland at a therapy conference the presenter talks about his travels— Harlem last night, Memphis tomorrow— trains

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  • New Poem in Porter Gulch Review 2015

      Self-Awareness in the Modern Age   The sperm whale has the largest brain of anyone, and John Lilly, a scientist,  reckoned it the greatest philosopher on Earth. Of course, this was the Sixties   when god-whales and divine dolphins were as common as female activists wishing to make love to them, dressed in skin-tight

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  • New Poem in the Monterey Poetry Review

    Here's a poem about my father in the Monterey Poetry Review's 2015 Spring edition: End of the Road Restaurant   The End of the Road Restaurant   My father once told me he felt like a six-piston engine firing on only two. After L.A.’s poverty, father dead, mother on welfare, he wanted to believe his

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  • New Poem in the Gnarled Oak Journal

    Here's a new little poem just out in The Gnarled Oak on-line journal, entitled, On The Nature of Beauty: The Gnarled Oak – Issue 3     On the Nature of Beauty   Linda and I by the woodpile entranced by a beautiful dragonfly— green head and speckled body caught in a spider web, wings

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  • Lost In America

    Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (Summer, 2014) has just published a new poem of mine entitled Lost In America. You can read the poem on-line here: Lost In America   Lost In America   I was driving down the mountain on LSD after a weekend away from my psychiatric aide job, the only job

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  • RECKLESS WRITING Anthology: Four New Poems

    Chatter House Press has released an anthology called RECKLESS WRITING, that started as a spoken word collaboration for poets in the midwest, but expanded to include both coasts and a broad age range of writers: Reckless Writing The four poems of mine included in the anthology are: I Read Like An Animal Butt Crack at

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