A Good Night's Sleep Bartered for Poetry?

I have been so pleased at the number of my friends in the writing community who have told me about gluten free products available here. Today Karen Holmes brought me some delicious crackers, that I can get at the grocery store. Maren Mitchell says a local health food store carries wonderful bread! I plan to go and pick up some today.

I am pleased to say that I feel much better this weekend and have been getting some things done around here. 

Will Wright, poet and editor, and a nice young man, is my house guest. He is teaching a class at my studio this morning. Like so many of my guests, Will exclaimed that he had never had such a good night's sleep as he did in my downstairs bedroom. Karen stayed here before and she agreed. She said it is comforting, like being in the womb. Now isn't that the words of a poet?

I think it is the darkness and the quiet. With no windows to let in the morning light, a person could forget to get up. Will asked permission to come and stay one night each month just to get a really good night's sleep. I told him we could barter, my favorite thing to do. He can help me with my poetry, and I'll provide him with a room where he can rest and sleep as long as he wants.  

I am the most fortunate person I know. I have work that I love, and through that work, I meet people I enjoy and admire. Each day brings me more joy and gratitude for what I have. 

Wild Goose Poetry Review is Archiving Summer Issue

Wild Goose Poetry Review is about to archive its Summer Issue.

I went back and read the poetry in this issue.

You might enjoy reading Netwest members' Maren Mitchell's poem about the huggable bear on her deck and Brenda Kay Ledford's poem on the mountains, but be sure to also read the work of Anthony Abbott, Debra Kaufman, Caren Masem and others.

Look for more Netwest poets in upcoming issue of Wild Goose Poetry Review by Scott Owens.

Summer 2010 Contents of Wild Goose Poetry Review



Debra Kaufman, On Learning His Diagnosis
Debra Kaufman, The Drought Speaks
Debra Kaufman, In the Euclid Library
Linda Parsons Marion, Huge
Linda Parsons Marion, Hunger
Maren Mitchell, Seldom Seen
Maren Mitchell, The Next Bus
Maren Mitchell, Sweet Basil,
Caren Masem, A Woman of Substance
Caren Masem, Hard Hiking
Clare L. Martin, Open Me with a Fire of Words
Anthony Abbott, At the Christmas Party
Anthony Abbott, This Is Not a Dream
Harry Calhoun, Emotional Wreck
Austin Rory Hackett, The Best Blues Are Written in the Fall
Austin Rory Hackett, Gravedigger Diction
Douglas Anne McHargue, The Power of the Moon
Douglas Anne McHargue, Dowager Queen
Douglas Anne McHargue, Blue Neon Bar
Bethea Buchanan, Albert Albert
Jean Rodenbough, At San Damiano
Ethan Sigmon, Languish
Harry Youtt, And What of the Dawn
Frank Finney, When
Lisa Brewer, Opportunity Knocked
Brenda Kay Ledford, Appalachian Mountains

Reviews


Steve Roberts, Another Word for Home

Rhett Iseman Trull, The Real Warnings

Richard Krawiec, Editor, The Sound of Poets Cooking

Ami Kaye, What Hands Can Hold

Richard Allen Taylor, Punching through the Egg of Space

David T. Manning, Continents of Light