Posts Tagged ‘ Donna Fleischer ’
Adoration of the Ear
– ekphrasis on an African linguist’s staff
crooked staff
like a great tree
ground-sprung
swept air clear for
feeling’s drum
burnished gold leaf,
with thumb roll of
an elephant’s dung
into ear shape
with a trunk trumpets
vowels of savannah
Donna Fleischer
Solitary Plover Summer 2020
issue #32
May poem prologue
be for friends twice self-addressed
as we are for this –
a journey of selves possessed
and one another loved free
Source: West Hartford – Love Tanka
Meritage Press’ Minitage Editions is pleased to release an approximate 2-inch by 2- inch book:
COVID-19 POEMS
By Donna Fleischer
Source: Eileen’s Tiny Books: COVID-19 POEMS by DONNA FLEISCHER
Sunday May 6, 3PM
Donna Fleischer’s poems are in small independent press chapbooks, anthologies, and journals worldwide. These include Kō, Modern Haiku, Otoliths, Peace Is a Haiku Song, Poetry at the End of the World, Spiral Orb, The Marsh Hawk Press Review, and The #Occupy Wall Street Anthology. < Periodic Earth >, from Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press (Colorado, 2016), is her fourth chapbook. Other chapbooks are with Longhouse Publishers and bottle rockets press.
Leslie McGrath is the author of three collections of poetry, the most recent being Feminists Are Passing from Our Lives. Winner of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the Gretchen Warren award from the New England Poetry Club, her poems and interviews have been published in Agni, Poetry magazine, The Academy of American Poets, The Writer’s Chronicle, and The Yale Review. McGrath teaches creative writing at Central CT State University and is series editor of The Tenth Gate, a poetry imprint of The Word Works Press. She lives in Essex.
Reading starts with an Open Mike.
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Free event.
The Charter Oak Readings Blogspot
For more info contact—
Jim
JforJames@aol.com
860.508.2810
Directions to Charter Oak Cultural Center
From points west
Take 84 East to 48B (the “Capitol Avenue” exit). At the end of the ramp, take a left onto Capitol Avenue and go straight until the road ends. Take a right onto Main Street. Turn left at the first light onto Charter Oak Avenue and the Cultural Center is the first building on the right with two domes on top.
From points east
Take 84 West to exit 54 (the “Downtown Hartford” exit). At the end of the ramp, turn left onto Columbus Boulevard. At the fifth light, turn right onto Charter Oak Avenue. After the second light, the Cultural Center is the building with two domes on top on the left side of the street just before Main Street.
From points north or south
Take 91 to exit 29A in Hartford, labeled “Capitol Area”. Bear right and take the second exit labeled “Prospect Street to Main Street”. Turn left atthe stoplight at the end of the ramp and go straight. At the second light turn right onto Charter Oak Avenue. After the turn, the center is the third building on the left with two domes on top.
Parking
The Charter Oak Readings : : Donna Fleischer & Leslie McGrath : : The Charter Oak Cultural Center
the teakwood desk where i sometimes write has a hinged panel at the back that expands the overall depth when it’s flipped open. otherwise, when closed, it sits upright at the back of the desk, like a piano, providing a smaller more intimate writing space and revealing variously shaped cubby holes which i like to think of as amused portals safekeeping the overheard whispers and ideas when talking with myself all these years. (continued)
Source: my (small press) writing day: Donna Fleischer : an altar of sorts
Native Object
To hug a tree—how silly
can one get, he said, but to dance
with it—like the wind, said he subtracting
craving from contact & The rose
in the garden among evergreens after a soaking rain blooms
no wider than this
winter morning,
may i become
your blank page
snowfield –
sound of deer’s hooves
striking the moonlit road
in the woods
snow shoals sun squalls,
a green triangle
Source: May, 2018 – Otata
down
pour
my furious heart
*
the crow
first to rise, its
silent aubade
o dark,
dark nature
of light
Donna Fleischer
Joseph Beuys | Documentary | Hyperallergic
Poster for Beuys (2017) (courtesy Kino Lorber)
man on a plane
By hearing him speak with a flight attendant, I learn that he is from Hungary, the man in the dark brown suit and brown shoes who reminds me of the German Conceptual artist, Joseph Beuys, dressed in his overlarge felt pants and suit jacket.
During the arduous flight from Amsterdam to New York, he shifts seats from time to time: sometimes in the aisle seat, other times the window seat, and once, all three, for a nap. How is it that on this crowded plane the other two seats of his row remain empty?
the blackbirds swirl
high above snowy fields
their shadow
An attendant instructs him to keep the window shuttered during this daytime flight, for better movie viewing, even though he doesn’t watch. The ocean crossing is long and dull and people need movies to pass the time. I’m like a zealous soccer fan when he glides back over to the window and cracks open the shutter a few inches, slumped as low as he can to gaze into the sky and the sunlight for long bits of time, or draw a book close to his chest to read by that light.
Scrunched up in his wrinkled brown suit like a man in solitary confinement, the rest of us sitting somewhere between sleep and wakefulness in our poured plastic cocoons, breathing recirculated air and trying to stay occupied since leaving our bodies on the tarmac before takeoff. I wonder what will emerge when this plane touches down
sings
flies
a bird and
Donna Fleischer
bottle rockets vol 11 no 2 (#22) 2009
under the snow
the gurgling
spring
by Donna Fleischer
Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology, 2003
Source: Daily Haiku: March 22, 2017 | Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
word pond 