http://www.poetryevolution.com Hari Bhajan's musings on poetry, spirit and every day life. Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:25:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I went to Franklin Canyon today—a local park off of Coldwater Canyon Drive, a few miles from my home. You forget you’re in L.A. when you’re walking there among the sycamore and redwood trees, the sky a brilliant blue and the winding trails that lead steeply upward or circle the ... http://www.poetryevolution.com/2008/01/02/a-walk-in-the-park/ A couple of weeks ago I had the fun experience of reading a few of my poems in a studio. My friends Hilda (fellow poet) and Wayne (the director, cameraman, et al) invited me to give it a go. They've been filming poets around Los Angeles for the last year ... http://www.poetryevolution.com/2007/12/31/in-front-of-the-camera/ A couple of days ago my husband and I took a trip up to the Getty Museum. It was a blustery, rather chilly day, for L.A. but there were still pretty sizable crowds lining up to get on the tram that climbs to the top of the hill, where the ... http://www.poetryevolution.com/2007/12/29/trip-to-the-getty/ It’s been a busy poetry week, not to mention the revving up for the holidays (which I don’t participate in at full bore). I've been to two readings and met with three different workshop groups. I had on my schedule to go to another reading this afternoon, but decided to ... http://www.poetryevolution.com/2007/12/09/poetpourri/ The day after the Thanksgiving weekend I took off for my own private holiday, driving east on the 10 freeway past Riverside and San Bernardino, past the hills of Palm Springs to the dusty little town of Desert Hot Springs and the Sagewater Inn & Spa, where the ... http://www.poetryevolution.com/2007/11/28/three-days-in-the-desert/ Last Thursday I went to a reading at the downtown L.A. Public Central Library through ALOUD, which is a wonderful series of readings, discussions and performances held in the Mark Taper Auditorium (beautiful venue, great sound) and presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. If you live in the ... http://www.poetryevolution.com/2007/11/19/galway-kinnell-reading-at-aloud/ It's been a little while since we've heard from Liza, but she's back with another book review and she promises me she has two or three in the hopper, so we'll have more to come. She and I both fell in love with the poetry and the prose of Mark ... http://www.poetryevolution.com/2007/11/04/heavens-coast-by-mark-doty/ Saturday night, following a week when fires raged, Mercury was doing it’s retrograde thing and the moon shone full on it all, four Vermont College graduates of the Class of Fall, 2005, found a way to spend nearly an hour together trying to catch ... http://www.poetryevolution.com/2007/10/30/vermont-college-mini-reunion/ In honor of our new Poet Laureate I went back to my Vermont College essays and pulled out this one on Charles Simic's book of poems, The Voice at 3 A.M. I've also included one of my favorite poems of his at the conclusion. Charles Simic ... http://www.poetryevolution.com/2007/10/21/the-voice-at-3-amcharles-simic/ For the first time in years I look forward to the mail dropping down the chute. There are more than bills, coupons and credit card solicitations coming in the mail these days. In the last three or four months I’ve been submitting my poems to journals—actually getting ... http://www.poetryevolution.com/2007/10/18/poems-in-the-post/