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Congratulations on this great new site! It will be an entertainment, but more than that, I expect it will be a tremendous reference resource.
Thanks,
- Ralph Murre
A library, archival center, and kitchen junk drawer all in one. Stupendous!
Only a poet with a haiku heart could put it in no uncertain words as these.
What could be more fascinating that a kitchen junk drawer?
This is your life: dull knives, bent forks, worn wooden spoons, rusted church keys smelling of stale beer, old string, rubber bands…books of matches anxious to burn…STRIKE…light the way…deeper and deeper into a dark drawer…you never know the shape of things awaiting the slightest touch…
norb
Norbert,
Ron Baatz, my dear friend of some 38 or so years, and I met for breakfast this past weekend then returned to my house to bemoan our mutually flagging female fortunes (a common topic these days). Then Ron pulled up his “thoughts on a snowy February afternoon” on your website for me to read. One of the few things of his I hadn’t read and till then I was unaware of your website……. so please include me on your email mailing list. Meantime here in the Catskills we’ll do our best to hold back the demons of loneliness bound to take a stab at us with the onset of winter.
Al Tirella
Dear Monsieur K:
Your website is wonderful, impressive and a boon to all us “quiet voices” out here in the rare air. I must ask you to do something regarding the poem “Once Again I Fail To,” it needs a reference to George Bilgere. When I sent it to Norb, I didn’t think of it being published and didn’t hv that note. I used George’s poem as an exercise in my poets’ group and we all generated wonderful info. Please accept my appology for this lack of etiquette.
Jackie
Dear Norbert,
I discovered your neat site by accident when I clicked on something after typing my own name (don’t tell anyone) into the internet. Thank you very much for including me here. Thank you for being underground and humble.
Off to clean a couple houses,
Ginger
This is such a wonderful page! What more can I say? Thanks
hello Norbert! Hope you can come visit my blog in your spare time I would like to receive a comment from you about my writings. My blog is at http://wordprompts.wordpress.com
I hope it’s not too much to ask. I’ll be waiting for a response from you. Many thanks in advance.
-Elisha
crows have been such an important part of my spirt all my life and i just wanted to congradulate you on some wonderful things in your site. i have many areas that show my passion for crows perhaps if you have time to look they are here:
http://www.zazzle.com/crowknow
http://www.zazzle.com/blazenraven
from these sites you can find links to all other areas, all the best “be-caws” your crew is cool!
David Kherdian, once the co-witness at my earliest marriage in Santa Fe
and after a lapse of many decades has again become a friend, an even
better one, and David clued me in today, Father’s Day, to your site–a fine and interesting one–not least of which is seeing DK’s “Father” poems again. Thank you! Please keep on your list. –David Giannini
Dear Norbert Blei,
I am writing about a public poetry event i am working to build in Chicago next year. It’s not until Valentine’s Day so there is time to plan but I like to plan well and early :). Please check out my website above. I’m based in Amsterdam, and started this project in Los Angeles – I lived in Chicago however for six years and did theater there – it is an excellent excellent theater town – as I’m sure you know! My project happened on a small level there this year and I would like it to be bigger and better next year.
Hundreds of poems submitted to my site are passed out attached to thousands of flowers I get at a discount fm FTD Floral (headquartered in the Chicago area actually) – poems can also be distributed as scrolls or attached to paper flowers. I work with some schools and have a friend who works with the Chicago Park District. Also the Neighborhood Writing Alliance (jot.org) will be participating next year.
I also work with schools at generating workshops but this is also a creative opportunity for a poetry evening or a workshop around themes of peace, global citizenship – or self reflection. The idea is that poems fm somewhere in the world are distributed on this day – as a large global friendship project!
Valentine’s day is a day about love so why not make it mean something for peace, or global community or reflections on love and peace and use the vehicle of poetry and the public distribution of poems to share this message.
OK – let me know if you or some in your writing community there would be interesed in participating in some creative way for February 14 2009.
Thanks – feel free to contact me for any further questions/information. This is a new project so I am still developing it (raising funds, expanding website etc.).
Warm regards,
Federico Hewson
The Valentine Peace Project
valentinepeaceproject.org
you seem to know lots of folks I know
not “know of” but knw…
and
where do I know Jeff Winke from? “rings a bell”
am book-marking you site sowze to peruse
cheers, ed baker
Where did you find these fantastic photographs of Jorge Luis Borges? I’m working on a brief tribute to him for Global Rhythm magazine (issue focusing on the music, art and culture of Argentina) and would love to run a high-resolution scan of the image that leads your entry entitled “The Destiny of Borges,” dated May 15 (with JLB looking skyward beneath a canopy of dark clouds).
Any help you can offer would be much appreciated…
best regards,
Bill Murphy
Managing Editor
GLOBAL RHYTHM magazine
Tribute (Haiku undone)
a vest of conciense
a seamless demise
tender poultry and a smell of spice
but in warren we see peppered lights
and streets, contrete
littered ashes of yesterday
sausages greasy admiration
of a day long gone
-Jim Peitz
For Ron Offen
40 years
by Jeff Kamen
Old battles are best
Remembered in soft focus
Better to be tasted
With the dried salt
Of long calmed fears
Or, just maybe,
The pain and daring
The praise and the concern
The comfort of good friends
Were all
Real and True
I have commented specifically on some of the other pages, but I do not think that precludes me from adding my thanks and how good to meet you and your compadres here.
I can see why John Harvey’s work is prized – the quality of the folks on the site shines right through.
MacArthur-like, I Shall Be Back.
Norbert and Monsieur K:
Congratulations!!! and Wow!!! and Holy Cow–50,000 hits is
no mean accomplishment. This terrific site will now take off
into the stratoshere according to the experts. For me it is
consciousness expanding. I read poems I would never find on
my own, and read authors I probably would never seek out, and read things I disagree with and phrases I have longed for all my life. Thank you for the beauty of the photos and illustrations and for the hard and dedicated work involved.
Dear Mr. Blei,
I’ve recently stumbled upon your site and have noticed your admiration for Jaroslav Seifert. I wonder if you might be interested in some of my recent translations of his work. I’m an American poet who has lived in Prague for five years, and done a fair amount of critical work on Seifert. Please let me know if this interests you.
All the best,
Stephan Delbos
I was more than excited when I found your website. The statement you made inre: the disenchantment with today’s written word struck me to the core. This website is a blessing for those who refuse to let poetry die and understand the importance poetry has in this ever changing world. Please let me know if there is anyway I may be of service. I am a northern Minnesota poetry/fiction writer.
Hi Norbert,
I have just discovered your site and have totally enjoyed reading through it. I will visit this site again. I live in Ireland and like to write poetry. I was wondering if i could forward a few of my poems on to you, i realise that you must be very busy, so hope i am not adding to the work burden, with my request.
Hope to hear from you.
Yours Sincerely,
John Behan.
I just found out about yr site and it looks very promising. Do you accept reviews for books you haven’t read? Essays? Other poetica crap? I have just published a book length poem by Todd Moore, entitled The Riddle of the Wooden Gun and I’m looking for places to promote it. I’ve also published books by John Yamrus and myself and a ton (well, a couple of pounds at least) of small chapbooks (59 titles). Please let me know how to get in touch with you more directly.
Dear Norbert:
Thanks for the kind words. I am still here, on Bataan, eating horsemeat, but, as you can see from the enclosed two sites, I will soon leave the trench and lead two more bayonet charges!
You’re right–there’s not many of us left, but there’s enough to get the job done.
Hope all is well with you and yours. You were always one of my favorite pals–still are–for you continued to go forward alone without bitterness or resentment, advancing Kipling’s iron ethic: “Believe in your God, trust to your luck and march to your front like a soldier!”
Best,
Jay
I am a writer from Nigeria , and wish to be informed on how to register with you
BEAUTIFUL JOB, MY FRIEND……
THE BEST EVER, EVER, EVER…..
A MILLION THANKS,
HUGH
BEAUTIFUL JOB….
NEVER BETTER,
MIL GRACIAS,
HUGH
I am a writer from Ecuador and I wish for the same as the writer from Nigeria above.
I was down–then I found your website and it picked me up, thank you.
In February I had a total knee replacement and On April 1st I got a bad session of shingles in my left eye. I haven’t been able to read or drive a car until last week,
I haven’t forgotten you. LaVona