parenting
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My new poem, “Looking Good for the Apocalypse,” is in this wonderful third volume of the Voices of the Earth anthology. I’ll be reading it at one of the book launch events April 11 at the RI Audubon’s Nature Center in Bristol, RI: https://asri.org/learn/naturecenteraquarium.html.
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Can’t tell from the snow falling out my window, but if it’s the spring issue, it must be spring, right? A poem from Preliminary Visions, “Dough,” was reprinted today in the spring issue of Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing: https://www.snapdragonjournal.com/product-page/spring-2022-pleasure.
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The bitterness of the ancestresses spit upon me What did I do wrong my child self wanted to know Nothing but to exist to be hers …………………………………..out of her body in spite ……………………………………………………of herself …………………………………..to spite perhaps …………………….her love …….her love of sex, surely her pulchritude, my dad would call it in us, her unwanted…
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It’s not just his shoes. Here are his skates.Filling them means putting on the old steel-toed bootsthe night before, grabbing a shovel, andheading down to the pond to clear snow off the ice.If it’s going to be cold enough overnightyou can use that snow to dam the out-streamwith a berm just high enoughto let…
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After a day of trailing my mother from house to house or along the beach gathering signatures on petitions, our table conversation would start something like this: What if America had not fought in World War II? How else can you stop an aggressor like Hitler but with war? Isn’t peace without justice just another…
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Heart of Flesh Literary Journal published my (quite Buddhist) riff off TS Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday;” a twist on the binding of Issac; and a parallel between of Noah’s sea level rise and modern scientists’ prophesies, in poems called, respectively, “Ash Wednesday;” “Anticipating the Akedah Moment;” and “What a Fragile Earth it is without a God./What…
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On the heels of the latest statistics showing a precipitous decline in Roman Catholic Church membership and churchgoing in Rhode Island, Post-Catholic Midrashim gives an intimate and philosophical portrait of how and why one might leave. “The Roman Catholic Church may be the most successful cult in the history of the world,” Lutz says. “And…
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Listening Tree Co-op, where I live and farm and write, launched the Spoken Word! series this year, to convene storytellers, poets, standup whatevers, even sit down comics–anyone who likes to share their words live. The first event last spring launched with Jackson Gillman’s storytelling inspiring us to plant trees, followed by an open mic. This…
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My mother and I stepped over trashon a sidewalk, and she taught meto judge the litterers. My father taught meto pick it up: the glee of superiority. My priest and our youth groupstepped around a drunk face downon a sidewalk, and he taught usselective ministry. My government and my peace groupdebated the war and thenhow…
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Awed by Rick Benjamin’s read of my chapbook: You have to start with the title of Karina Lutz’s new collection: as if you’ve just happened upon a small group of rabbis engaged in a deep conversation about the Catholic mass. Always open to interpretation, on the one hand; closed dogma on the other. Past this…