balanced on the edge

For Something Blue, the final day of Freedom to Marry Week, I’m sharing a video of Elizabeth Alexander reading two poems: ‘Ars Poetica #92: Marcus Garvey on Elocution’ and ‘Ars Poetica #100: I Believe’ from American Blue.

The Poetry Foundation has a nice sampling of Elizabeth Alexander’s poems to read, and includes a summary of her [...]

Something borrowed for day three of the Freedom to Marry Week blog carnival hosted at The OTHER mother.
My news is borrowed from Jessica Fox Wilson, editor of Asphalt Sky, poet, and the author of 9 t0 5 Poet. Jo Hemmant is also editor of Asphalt Sky. She has written a wonderful essay on the workings [...]

Something New from christine swint on Vimeo.
A tiny video for the blog carnival in honor of Freedom to Marry Week, hosted by The OTHER Mother.

It’s day one of the Freedom to Marry blog carnival at the OTHER mother, and
I have three items for today’s theme of something old.
The first is this photo on the left, taken 38 years ago, at the age I was when I wrote the following poem. When I was ten I used to write poems [...]

Robin Reagler, writer, poet, and executive director of Writers in The Schools in Texas has announced on one of her blogs, The OTHER mother, that she’ll be hosting a blog carnival to highlight Freedom to Marry week. Here’s what Robin has to say:
I hope you will join me in this blog carnival, which we began [...]