Poets on Site
04/29/2008 04:28 p.m.
I've been a little quiet here and this is why:

Last Thursday our group "Poets on Site" -I organized this in Pasadena, gave a beautiful celebration of the Earth at Ten Thousand Villages, a fair-trade shop near us. I made a book and we followed it like a script, with musical accompaniment on kulintang, (Phillipine gongs) and fujara (Slovakian shepherd's flute) with a dvd in the background with pictures of our hikes and also hikes in the 1900's in the same mountains. A poet who does fiber art hung her "Lady of the Forest" work as a backdrop.

This Sunday: The Poetry of Rengetsu, Lotus Moon, is inscribed on scrolls and ceramics she made. She was a 19th century Buddhist nun. The "Poets on Site" have been writing poetry in response to the poems and artwork. Many of mine for this event are tanka form (5 lines, more lyrical, emotional)- haiku followed from that, if I understand right. This has immersed me in making the chapbooks- (like a script) the poets answering her words. We are giving a performance, tourguide style poetic walk through this exhibit at the Pacific Asia Museum on Sunday in Pasadena at 2 PM.

We have another tourguide performance in Sunset beach on May 10, poems written on oil paintings in a gallery there, and then we leave May 12 for China- for 3 weeks.


I am currently Excited