Ruba’i and Rubáyiat – Meeting at the Bar
Usually when I tell people that I’m interested in poetry, I see a vacant look in their faces before they …
Category Archives: Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft
Patterns of Life–dVerse Meeting the Bar
In a recent visit to the Nevada Museum of Art, the feature exhibit was titled Shangri-La: a collection of art, …
Your (Own) Beat
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let …
MeetingTheBar: It’s a small, small world — so let’s LIMBO like there is no tomorrow
A couple weeks before vacation, we took the boys to the skating rink. I was there for the laser tag. …
Bold metaphors and images // avoiding words like “like” and “as”
In his poem “The Smiths as I understand them” Bob Hicok writes about special need kids and in one passage …
