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Fwd: Monday's poet is Paulette Jiles

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Date: Jan 7, 2017 7:41 PM
Subject: Monday's poet is Paulette Jiles
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Although Paulette Jiles is now focused on writing novels, she began her writing career as a poet and a journalist. She was born on April 4, 1943 in Salem, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains. While she grew up in various small towns in central Missouri, she spent a great deal of time visiting family in the Ozark mountains, including her grandfather, whom she describes as a great storyteller. She attended the University of Missouri (KC) on a scholarship, majoring in Romance Languages. In 1969, she moved to Canada; currently she holds dual citizenship. In 1973 she moved to far northern Ontario to run a community radio station. She spent a decade there, living among the Ojibway and the Cree, experiences she chronicled in the memoir North Spirit (Hungry Mind Press, 1995). Previously, her second book of poetry, Celestial Navigation (McClelland and Stewart, 1984) won multiple awards, including the Governor General's Award for English Poetry. She has also published Blackwater (Knopf, 1988) a collection of poetry and prose, and Flying Lesson: Selected Poems (Oxford University Press, 1995). Her five published novels are Enemy Women (2002), Stormy Weather (2007), The Color of Lightning (2009), Lighthouse Island (2013), and News of the World (2016), which was nominated for the National Book Award. Currently she lives near San Antonio, Texas. For further information and links to her blog entries, see her website, www.paulettejiles.com.  

This week's featured poem, "Everything the Loon Sings About," is from Celestial Navigation (McClelland and Stewart, 1984). The version below is taken from Blackwater (Knopf, 1988), and differs from the original in a few line breaks. 

EVERYTHING THE LOON SINGS ABOUT

Everything the loon sings about is

monumental and jeweled. 

     Everything matters 

and floats. 

They take nothing calmly. 

     These must be domestic arguments 

out there in the bay, other women, 

divorces. 

     We are held by two anchors, 

bow and stern, 

the sails in their crisp bags crackle.

     Later I will have dreams 

of being rammed in the forepeak

     as we sink in columns of

fairy bubbles toward whatever

     the bottom holds. 

     Pines full of turpentine bend

with bitter grace over the shore. 

They are right.

     Everything matters. 

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Are you crazy show postponed

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Due to appointment with Comcast in new house, can't make it to the studio this morning. Plus Dr McGill is in California today.

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George Carlin on the 2016 Election

Occupy West Virginia

7:30- 9:00 AM Tuesday, January 3, 2017

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The station is back up.

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Bluegrass today, all day. Except for Fanny.

Gonna be revising the schedule in coming days. I will post changes to this blog.

No poetry show this morning

Its Moving Day at Case house.

Thought I could do the Poetry show this morning....but just too much to do --- I am headed to new digs in Bolivar -- just 6 blocks away.....Tune in tomorrow --- there will be poetry on the Occupy show!!

cheers to all

John