Dale's Poetry News & Thursday Poem

submitted by Dale Harris

Happy New Year! If your resolutions included more poetry, you're in luck. Here's some upcoming poetry events and if you continue on, a poem.

Sat. Jan. 19, 1-4:30 pm Poetry Open House at the home of Billy Brown & Sandi Blanton, 2909 Monterey Ave SE (3 streets south of Coal, 3 houses east of Girard) held quarterly, bring poems to share, your own or favorites. Free, snack potluck welbert53@aol.com

Sat. Jan. 19, 7:30 pm catch Art Goodtimes on his Talking Gourds Whirlwind Tour of North Central New Mexico! Bill Nevins will host an informal Albuquerque reading, contact him for directions & details bill_nevins@yahoo.com

Sun Jan 20th, 3 pm, Anasazi Fields Winery, Placitas, NM - Duende Poetry Series presents Placitas Literary Heritage: Annual January Duende & Friends Reading, poems and writings from many voices who have called Placitas home.

Directions: Take I-25 to the Placitas exit 242, drive 6 miles east to the Village, turn left at the sign just just before the Presbyterian Church, follow Camino de los Pueblitos through two stop signs to the Winery entrance. Anasazi Fields wines will be available for tasting and purchasing. Suggested donation of $3 will pay the poets. For more info contact cirrelda@laalamedapress.com

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Looking Ahead

March 28-30 Ellen Bass Writers Retreat, Mt. Princeton Hot Springs, Colorado

Deadline to secure a spot is Jan. 18th. www.neighborhooduniversecity.com/ellenbass.php

Some on-line poetry resources:

• Poetry Tangents, www.nmpoetrytangents.com, workshops and publications, events calendar Get info on their new literary magazine "Shadows Caste"
• CCA poetry events, Santa Fe, www.ccasantafe.org. For more info or to enroll in workshops, contact Jill Battson (505) 982-1338
• Check the Abq Slams website for regular venues and special events www.abqslams.org
• Fickle Muses online journal with weekly featured poets & writers, mythic themes www.ficklemuses.com
• A site from Ken Gurney, Origami Condom, more info and submission guidelines go to origamicondom.org
• LUNAROSITY, an online literary journal, http://www.zianet.com/lunarosity
• SIN FRONTERAS: Writers Without Borders: Visit website for updated information www.zianet.com/lunarosity/sinfronteras.html
  
• SAGE TRAIL a new monthly poetry magazine from Albuquerque and Santa Barbara, CA, is looking for submissions. Send any quantitiy poems year round by email to Suzanne Frost sfrost@sagetrail.net or snail mail to Cathryn McCracken 241A Willow Road NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107. Copyrights revert to authors on publication. Subscribe for introductory price of $10. per year, send check/money order to Sage Trail, 661 Del Parque Dr., Unit D, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

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Okay, here's the poem:

dream of dragonfly

on a winter afternoon

me a summer child

at play in a boat

hear the older children jeer

darning needle,

darning needle!

stitch up your eyes

fly far away, dragonfly!

they were abundant

on our lake

I admired their quick swoop

the long hover over water

remember my grandmother

deft hands

mending our heel worn socks

how she held a darning egg

wove the threads

sewed the holes shut

think now I never saw

such an act of grace and skill

as hers

I never did see

a dragonfly stitch

Dale Harris
2115 Aspen Avenue NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104

Poetry & Music CD's at http://www.cdbaby.com/all/daleharris
"Cibola Seasons", "Once We Were Winged" & "Like A Hummingbird"

EdNote: ooops... last Thursday's news and poem, so there will be another - this week's - very soon