tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.comments2009-04-11T08:43:05.865-05:00Denise Low PostingsDenise Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03015626564859321226noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-45500853024487359962009-04-07T20:58:00.000-05:002009-04-07T20:58:00.000-05:00I love how the perspective changes from child-like...I love how the perspective changes from child-like to a more mature status, compareing the wide roads to dusty paths. This is a magnificent poemAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-50935150162902384802008-09-21T15:32:00.000-05:002008-09-21T15:32:00.000-05:00I would like to present this poem to my poetry cla...I would like to present this poem to my poetry class. I just want to be sure of the spacing, as the way it is posted here is a bit confusing. Is it:<BR/><BR/>1.Kiss the one you love.<BR/>Behind the lips<BR/>teeth are waiting<BR/><BR/>Like a man with a weapon<BR/>Waits in a dark alley.<BR/><BR/>2. They are not knives<BR/>but clubs.<BR/><BR/>They come down on meat<BR/>like a lead pipe<BR/>on the head of a woman.<BR/><BR/>3. Sometimes in dreams<BR/>they wither and turn soft<BR/>like rotten cactus.<BR/>They curl up and fall out<BR/>like men refusing to fight<BR/>an unpopular war.<BR/>4.If you are beaten long enough and hard enough<BR/>your teeth will be knocked out.<BR/>Then you can use them as chessmen:<BR/>Front teeth, pawns;<BR/>Back teeth, pieces.<BR/>5. They line up in the mouth<BR/>like soldiers for inspection.<BR/><BR/>Ever since I can remember<BR/>they have surrounded the tongue,<BR/><BR/>reminding what is soft<BR/>of what is hard.<BR/><BR/>Thanks.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11656635753176148495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-17798259125359536582008-03-09T15:12:00.000-05:002008-03-09T15:12:00.000-05:00Wow, Missouri never had a poet laureate. Man, mayb...Wow, Missouri never had a poet laureate. Man, maybe I would have been. he he I'm dreaming. i used to live there.ekhosamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03581750060895264965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-1665288437301135022007-10-04T21:56:00.000-05:002007-10-04T21:56:00.000-05:00Thank you for your review of this wonderful docu/m...Thank you for your review of this wonderful docu/movie. Your additional personal information of Prof. Roger Shimomura was helpful. Your comments provided insightful stimulus for my own review, after I saw the movie today:<BR/><BR/>http://www.drbilllong.com/CurrentEventsXIII/Miri.html.<BR/><BR/>I taught in KS for six years and am delighted to see your page on KS arts/poetry, etc. The richness of prairie life needs to be told to all who have ears to hear.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07324192938703076799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-40839959269829733902007-06-24T13:08:00.000-05:002007-06-24T13:08:00.000-05:00My Dad was Richard Gillman and I know that he woul...My Dad was Richard Gillman and I know that he would be sadden by this news. Prayers to familyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-56536890611199866562007-03-03T08:00:00.000-06:002007-03-03T08:00:00.000-06:00Hi, I'd be happy to. What's the link? I couldn't f...Hi, I'd be happy to. What's the link? I couldn't find it googling. DDenise Lowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015626564859321226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-34705677859051897072007-03-03T01:24:00.000-06:002007-03-03T01:24:00.000-06:00Hi i just created a blog called Poetic Misfortune....Hi i just created a blog called Poetic Misfortune. I was wondering if you could take a look and give me some feedback on what i have up so far. Thanks.Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12995842555002252658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-50823783854509172042007-03-03T01:21:00.000-06:002007-03-03T01:21:00.000-06:00I just created a blog called Poetic Misfortune. I ...I just created a blog called Poetic Misfortune. I was wondering if you could look at them and give me somefeedback on what i have so far?Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12995842555002252658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-53631705651976397852007-02-25T09:43:00.000-06:002007-02-25T09:43:00.000-06:00The short answer is no. The appreciation of Hughes...The short answer is no. The appreciation of Hughes in our area is appalling. Until the 1970s, no one acknowledged his importance. Part of the problem was the impression Rampersad and other biographers gave that his time in Lawrence was negligible, and his intellectual home was Harlem. My husband's and my research builds on some 1970s community scholars who did a few interviews and found his homes in Lawrence. Katie Armitage's online tour of his Lawrence connections and our book are the only significant study of his time in Lawrence. Yet we find he spent most of those years, from age 3 mo. to 13-14, in Lawrence. His mother took him for a few months at a time or less to Topeka, KC, and Col. The rest of the time he was with his grandmother on Ala. St. or NY St. and his family had been in the Lawrence area since 1870 and had a distinguished history also.Denise Lowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015626564859321226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-3585642572540852862007-02-22T21:51:00.000-06:002007-02-22T21:51:00.000-06:00Are there any museums in the Kansas City/Lawrence ...Are there any museums in the Kansas City/Lawrence area that have information about Langston Hughes?<BR/><BR/>Thank you,<BR/><BR/>Erica Jackson<BR/>Writing Teacher<BR/>Shawnee Mission School DistrictAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-81221794903026478992007-02-20T16:55:00.000-06:002007-02-20T16:55:00.000-06:00Thanks for your poem and rememberance of Mike. I a...Thanks for your poem and rememberance of Mike. I am the one mentioned as "best friend". I miss him terribly. For many years we spent hours together almost every week just enjoying each other's company while playing trivia games and discussing current events and other topics of the day. Mike was everything you said and more. I lost my parents years ago and many other friends family and acquaintances over the years but I seem to be taking Mike's loss particularily hard. I look forward to the upcoming reading of his poetry at the Writer's Place this Sunday. I accompanied him there several times as he did readings during the holiday season. It will bring back very fond memories and give me a chance to hear his words read in public again. KMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-65924354140862849832007-02-18T22:24:00.000-06:002007-02-18T22:24:00.000-06:00Not a problem. DNot a problem. DDenise Lowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015626564859321226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-26812766092924452582007-02-17T22:00:00.000-06:002007-02-17T22:00:00.000-06:00I'm just a guy who writes poems. I hope you don't ...I'm just a guy who writes poems. I hope you don't mind me using yours as inspiration?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08759722302350911270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-7302744997212068252007-02-12T22:00:00.000-06:002007-02-12T22:00:00.000-06:00Only wish I owned PT and didn't work for a living....Only wish I owned PT and didn't work for a living. Nope. there are groups around--some folks hang around the Pig. Some KU folks. The Lawrence Arts Center has some classes. DDenise Lowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015626564859321226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-36737636010408147222007-02-12T21:58:00.000-06:002007-02-12T21:58:00.000-06:00Okay, Richard, am getting curious. Who are you? In...Okay, Richard, am getting curious. Who are you? In any case, I like the surveyor and chart blown against his face.Denise Lowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015626564859321226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-74635974287326524502007-02-12T18:50:00.000-06:002007-02-12T18:50:00.000-06:00Hills Like ValleysThe mystery of the hills floatin...Hills Like Valleys<BR/><BR/>The mystery of the hills floating in the air around them,<BR/>So said the surveyor with a chart blown against his face.<BR/>The sun was continually strafing the landscape.<BR/>And also, continued the dispatcher, everyone’s cousins<BR/>With each other, keeping incest a family affair.<BR/><BR/>We came to the country to learn about ourselves.<BR/>Everywhere was a grave. A grove of trees was no different<BR/>Than a mole on an old lady’s face as she peered from a window.<BR/>That old foundation looks like my father’s favorite toilet.<BR/>That creek a trickle of blood down a fingerprint.<BR/><BR/>Now the sky drops leaflets on our heads. Tiny leaflets<BR/>Typeset in disappearing ink – they told us nothing.<BR/>Monarchs form a tiara on the crest of the hill.<BR/>And the crews working to put out the fire,<BR/>They smoke signal each other in romantic sonnets.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08759722302350911270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-76794701732096920472007-02-07T15:40:00.000-06:002007-02-07T15:40:00.000-06:00Denise -- Do you own La Prima Tazza? Do you know o...Denise -- Do you own La Prima Tazza? Do you know of any local poetry writing groups?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08759722302350911270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-18096429229679704042007-01-18T16:17:00.000-06:002007-01-18T16:17:00.000-06:00Thanks for the kind words, lettershaper. And Richa...Thanks for the kind words, lettershaper. And Richard, again, what fun. The necktie of question marks is so nice. I like your diction a lot. DLDenise Lowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015626564859321226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-14113211457991216082007-01-17T18:37:00.000-06:002007-01-17T18:37:00.000-06:00Eagles are Free
Eagles conscious of their role a...Eagles are Free<br /><br /><br />Eagles conscious of their role as symbol<br />Preen the confetti from their bald heads<br />In a dark bluff ruled by a vulture<br />With a necktie of question marks.<br /><br />A union of eagles even, hot rivets<br />Soaring over the I-beam landscape<br />With the hush, hush of secret accords<br />And immutable cosmic winds,<br /><br />Painting their claws blue <br />On the long empty telephone wire<br />Kept open under the sea of tranquility <br />That washes up the carcasses of smiling rats.<br /><br />Eagles crowding the maple podium,<br />Eagles pushing closer to see.<br />A man with a drinking bird<br />Three years sober and full of the spirit<br /><br />With his jacket lined with watches<br />Asking the time of a pale woman in a headdress <br />Whose arms move with surprising freedom<br />As she answers in an impossible whisper telepathically.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08759722302350911270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-60875125792790439142007-01-15T09:09:00.000-06:002007-01-15T09:09:00.000-06:00I'll ask around River City for John's whereabouts....I'll ask around River City for John's whereabouts. John Moritz of course is a live & wellish. <br /><br />Oh, I remember the first time I went into the Abington. I was a freshman, 18 yrs. old, exploring the far end of the KU campus, and wandered in there, saw the row of City Lights books on the shelf and almost wept. I'd read Seymour Krim's anthology THE BEATS in high school, so I was primed to see the array of serious beat writing. I was broke as hell, but bought my first copy of Ginsberg's HOWL. Ahhh. I loved the frame building that housed the Abington, and then I became friends with a woman, I think named Carol, who was a grand square Aries, who ran the head shop next door for awhile. How wicked this place got destroyed. DeniseDenise Lowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015626564859321226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-31559880112013591612007-01-15T00:48:00.000-06:002007-01-15T00:48:00.000-06:00As a poet, and an avid reader, I have to say that ...As a poet, and an avid reader, I have to say that I very much enjoyed my leisurely stroll through your blog...it was time well spent; entertaining and enlightening. I invite you to visit my own, if you like...The Lettershaperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14432569188617864419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-17772482344560942882007-01-14T22:36:00.000-06:002007-01-14T22:36:00.000-06:00Uncle George, yes, it probably was the Abington Bo...Uncle George, yes, it probably was the Abington Book Shop. That was either a typo or misremembrance on my part (don't have the source materials at my fingertips). I don't know the whereabouts or howabouts of John Fowler, though maybe some other wayfarer may be able to answer those questions.Stephen Bunchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17211960060982361794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-84663122059296860152007-01-13T08:30:00.000-06:002007-01-13T08:30:00.000-06:00Thank you Stephen and Denise --
Question: Wasn't ...Thank you Stephen and Denise --<br /><br />Question: Wasn't it Abington Book Shop ? John Fowler lists it that way in his Grist No. 1 On-line:<br /><br />"Any reference to the original GRIST would be incomplete if<br />there were no indication of the contribution made by co-<br />editors George Kimball and Charlie Plymell. For many issues<br />they were, in fact, the editors, while I acted as publisher<br />(from the thin bankroll of the Abington Book Shop which was<br />too soon exhausted). " http://www.thing.net/~grist/golpub/golmag/homegol.htm<br /><br />More importantly, where/how is John? Is he still with us? Much more on his work should be on the W3 - and I've not been able to find him. Best, Beats In Kansas: http://www.vlib.us/beats/uncle georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14351494847946672367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-62678878913784005942007-01-11T08:52:00.000-06:002007-01-11T08:52:00.000-06:00Fun. I like the translation of images into another...Fun. I like the translation of images into another toolkit of language. Let me know if you can publish this anywhere. Deer Woman is a major allusion here, and you translate that to Mary. Great! DeniseDenise Lowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015626564859321226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950131884981224901.post-81616106879161317092007-01-10T19:45:00.000-06:002007-01-10T19:45:00.000-06:00Dear Magic
What is a soul if not an invisible wak...Dear Magic<br /><br />What is a soul if not an invisible wake <br />From a boat nobody can prove exists<br />On a river of mist and dark clouds?<br /><br />I was at a carnival when I saw souls <br />Lining up by a man who was guessing <br />Weight for a dollar with a butcher’s scale.<br /><br />They wore the shoes of nurses<br />Who caught amputated limbs<br />In World War II, their angel wings<br /><br />And lifejackets down around their knees,<br />Which were bruised from kneeling.<br />The barker was robbing them blind,<br /><br />Winking to a woman who could have <br />Been Mary except for the tattoos.<br />Later she rode through a ring of fire<br /><br />On a dirt bike. They had an inside joke<br />They kept giggling about, probably<br />Some debauchery of the Carney underworld.<br /><br />On the trip home, a buck running along<br />Side the car was gone so quickly<br />It was like it was never there.<br /><br />Its scared eyes told of a life of deception,<br />The land wet with rain pulled up from Lethe<br />By clouds that could shape-shift into anything.<br /><br />Everything’s a big secret in the world<br />Of phantasmagorical presentations and possibility. <br />Just go to the graveyard and ask around.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08759722302350911270noreply@blogger.com