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Exactly What I Wanted: Worshipping Walt
I did not set out to read a book about the disciples of Walt Whitman. The volume was offered to me by my friend Jacob Stone who, in addition to being one of the co-directors of Quaker Center in Ben...
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Weird and Wonderful: Poetry and the Young Criminal Mind
My pal, Marilyn, has recently signed up for a stint with the young and the restless. That is to say she’s volunteering at the local detention facility for high schoolish offenders. Once a month or so...
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What We Lose, What We Gain
Some years ago – like maybe a decade – most of my jewelry was stolen. None of it was very valuable, although there were some pearls and jade and a little amber, and a lovely pair of moonstone stud...
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Free Sample: Music and Poetry of the Kesh
Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic novel Always Coming Home was originally published with a cassette tape, Music and Poetry of the Kesh, music by Oregon Shakespeare Festival Resident Composer Todd Barton,...
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Pard and the Poets
Pard and the Poets (Annals of Pard: IV) by Ursula K. Le Guin Six poets came to my house yesterday afternoon for the monthly meeting of our poetry group. There should have been eight of us in all, but...
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Celebrating Ursula K. Le Guin
On the occasion of the publication of three new books by BVC founding member Ursula K. Le Guin, Book View Café takes great pleasure in celebrating our colleague. Over the course of this week. BVC blog...
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My First Computer: Osborne I
My First Computer by Vonda N. McIntyre I’ve already written a bit about the Osborne I, a tan-case machine with a four-digit serial number, my first personal computer, without which I would never have...
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Call for Poetry
I’ve started a journal of LaTex poetry. I’m not real sure what LaTex poetry is. Free verse using LaTex tags, epic tales of conquering the steep slope of LaTex learning, jokey odes to floating tables,...
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The Music of the Spheres
The Kaiser Permanente Building after the Northridge Earthquake At 4:31 AM, January 17, 1994, a previously unknown blind thrust fault under the San Fernando Valley near the town of Northridge ruptured....
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Annals of Pard: An Unfinished Education
Annals of Pard: An Unfinished Education by Ursula K. Le Guin Last Thursday night, Pard woke me up about 3 a.m. by bringing his real, live mouse toy onto the bed so I could play with it too. This was...
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Poems That Make Grown Women Cry
Poems that Make Grown Women Cry Edited by Anthony and Ben Holden Amnesty International Contributors to the book were asked to write a little about why they chose a certain poem. Ursula K. Le Guin: I...
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Fifteen years and a day after
I tried not to think about 9/11 yesterday. It’s not that it isn’t important. In fact there are those moments in your life when you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when something...
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Health Update
Dear Readers: I’m sorry about not keeping up my blog posts, but everything got interrupted for me this summer when my congenital heart murmur (leaky valve) finally began to exact its toll. I spent a...
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A thanksgiving
A thanksgiving by Ursula K. Le Guin Those who stood at Standing Rock show us how the rocks stand so that only earth itself can move them, so that they move with earth, dancing earth’s dance with...
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Guest post via Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Wall” by Anita Endrezze
The Wall by Anita Endrezze Guest post via Ursula K. Le Guin My friend Deborah Miranda sent me this poem by her friend Anita Endrezze, which says a lot of the things that have been struggling in me to...
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The Jaguar
The Jaguar Ursula K. Le Guin the ghost of a jaguar walks through the fence the jaguar is our freedom a friend gave me a precious thing a little fragment of the Berlin wall but this wall they are...
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Poem Written in 1991
Poem Written in 1991 When the Soviet Union Was Disintegrating by Ursula K. Le Guin i The reason why I’m learning Spanish by reading Neruda one word at a time looking most of them up in the dictionary...
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PM Press holiday sale includes Le Guin’s Late in the Day
PM Press Holiday Sale: 50% off through 31 December 2017 Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 by BVC’s own Ursula K. Le Guin Late in the Day is now 50% off during the PM Press holiday sale, along with The...
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Auntie Deborah’s Autumn Writing Advice Column
Dear Auntie Deborah: Help! My characters have gone amok and won’t follow the plot of my book! What can I do to whip them into shape? — A Frustrated Author Dear Frustrated: The short (but brutal) answer...
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Cosmic Quakes
[Jab update: Fatigue was my grade two (moderate) reaction symptom from shot number one. The husband and I both found ourselves taking a lot of naps—although that could also be a symptom of general...
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