Poems to Frans and about death, June & July 2019 Cloudscapes Everything is more beautiful and painful now and that’s the deal no one escapes you showed me light and shadow enacted and reflected Enriched by love’s long apprenticeship I thought today about how you dove towards death I had never seen someone do it …
“Poets might get a bad rap when it comes to career success, but their way of thinking and playing is exactly the kind of creativity that is useful for developing a career story that can set someone on a useful course.” In this free webinar, Reinekke Lengelle will introduce you to Career Writing, co-developed with …
The widow project
Career Writing: a tribute to Frans Meijers
The working title of my current project is “The Widow Project” . It’s a narrative of love, death and resilience – it is the story of my journey loving and losing my life and work partner of many years. Here is one of the latest poems which will likely be the starting poem for the …
Ode to Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) By Reinekke Lengelle When a great poet dies the longest procession is in the rhizomes of her readers their minds joining at some cosmic point across hemispheres to whisper reverence sometimes even in unintentional unison, for instance while doing the dishes they might …
Beste lezer, Mensen kunnen om allerlei redenen in een knoop geraken. Soms is die knoop zo vast dat hij moeilijk los te krijgen is. Erover schrijven is heilzaam, het helpt. Gewoon beschrijven wat er in je omgaat. Dat kan in eenvoudige regels of in dichtvorm. En daarvoor hoef je helemaal geen schrijver of dichter te …
We’re here, now.
I received this gracious comment from author Kim Stafford about my poetry book Happy which is only available in syllabus form at the moment. “This book offers you three gifts: story-based considerations of our need for the strength of solace, poems that work like singing spells to advance that solace, and the whole project’s invitation …