Ninkasi Brewer's Dinner at The Sixgill

The Sixgill is awesome. Thanks to them & Ninkasi.

First course (Spring Reign): Applewood-smoked cod, english pea creme fraiche, carrot-radish slaw, fennel-buttermilk cracker.

Second course (Tricerahops): Roasted trumpet mushrooms, pickled ramps, chestnut puree, sherry-thyme reduction.

Third course (Believer): Believer-braised pork belly, charred onions, queso-fresco, tomato-cumin broth.

Fourth course (Barrel-aged RenewALE): Rogue Creamery Caveman Blue, candied bacon, sour cherry.

Fifth course (Vanilla Oatis Stout): Hazelnut coffee cake, banana dulce de leche, vanilla cream.

Dinner with Friends

Rockfish baked in a rosemary butter sauce with carmelized pearl onions with wild cherry.

New Poems up at H-ngm-n

You can find my poems here. And you should really read the whole issue because it's really good.

Words of Four, Available Online for All Eternity

Words of Four is HERE

See me reading online!

Event link

Come see four poets from around the United States share their poetry and thoughts with one another. Poets include Amber Nelson, Gina Myers, Jared White, and Greg Bem. This reading will last an hour. The Youtube link to the live stream will be posted here roughly five minutes before the Hangout reading begins.

Bios:

Greg Bem is the author of Black Hole Revisited, a digital chapbook of Twitter poems, available for free at gregbem.com. He lives in Seattle where he co-hosts the Five Alarms Greenwood Crawls, the Breadline performance series, and the Seattle Poetry Panels (with Amber Nelson).

Amber Nelson edits alice blue review and alice blue books. She has several chapbooks available. Her first book, In Anima: Urgency is forthcoming from Coconut Books.

Jared White is the author of two chapbooks: YELLOWCAKE, published by Cannibal Books in 2009, and THIS IS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE LOVED BY ME, just published by Bloof Books this March. A third chapbook, MY FORMER POLITICS, is forthcoming from H-NGM-N Books. His poems and essays have appeared in Harp & Altar, Sink Review, We Are So Happy To Know Something, among many other publications. With his wife Farrah Field, Jared is the owner of a small press bookstore, Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, co-curator of an event series, Yardmeter Editions, and parent of a baby, Roman Field White.

Gina Myers is the author of Hold It Down (Coconut Books, 2013) and A Model Year (Coconut Books, 2009). Originally from Saginaw, MI, she now lives in Atlanta, GA where she is an editor for Coconut Magazine, a staff writer for Frontier Psychiatrist, and the book review editor of H_NGM_N.

   

Poem up at The Far Field

Kathleen Flenniken, Washington State Poet Laureate, asked me to send a poem (published or unpublished) to feature on her blog. I was happy to do so and she selected my piece "Unheeded as a Threshold Brook" (previously published in TAIGA A) to feature.

You can read it online here.

I Wrote My First Yiddish Poem

Obviously I have only been taking yiddish a short while and my vocabulary is limited. And I can't make the hebrew alphabet on my computer. So... transliterated it is!

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Iz doe lichtik in der friling

Iz doe lichtick en der friling. Es iz varem un lichtik. Ich loyf en der friling. Ich loyf en der zumer. Ich loyf tog un nacht. Ich loyf imer by barg un vald. Ich loyf en devkut un devekut krechts. Ich loyf fun fintster, yogt der lichtik, yogt friling un zumer. Ich loyf veit tsu davent en der lichtik. Ich loyf a gain haim.

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There is light in the Spring.

There is light in the spring. It is warm and light. I run in the Spring. I run in the summer. I run day and night. I run always by hills and forest. I run in my unity with god, and my unity with god is caught in my throat. I run from the dark, chasing the light, chasing the Spring and Summer. I run far to pray in the light. I run to go home.