Sunday, May 26, 2019

Silphium perfoliatum: Sharing some of my poems with Professor Brett Millier (Middlebury, Stanford, Yale) after her inspiring presentation and reading of Adrienne Rich's poetry at Stanford - "Adrienne Rich: A Celebration of Her Poems," * * * Much of my poetry is Harbin Hot Springs-inspired * * * Do you know of any poetry which focuses explicitly on the generation of loving bliss neurophysiology, by any chance? :) * * * "Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss" and "Haiku~ish: and Other, Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry" in the Poetry Press at World University and School (WUaS Press)


Dear Brett,
(Professor Brett Millier of Middlebury College in Vermont
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/enam/faculty/node/41101),


Thanks so much for your inspiring presentation and reading of Adrienne Rich's poetry at Stanford on May 23rd - "Adrienne Rich: A Celebration of Her Poems" ... https://events.stanford.edu/events/833/83335/ - and very nice to talk with you afterwards. I greatly appreciate your observation that Adrienne Rich's poetry is an "unique lyric voice," and a voice that “demands belief.” I first read Rich's amazing "Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972" (1973) at Reed College as a student in the early 1980s. And thank you for asking to see 2 or 3 of my poems, after your moving and erudite presentations. Exciting to learn that you write poetry too, and it could be potentially interesting to explore publishing a collection of these in the Poetry Press at World University and School. Would you be open to sharing 2 or 3 poems of yours with me? 

All 3 of my books are Harbin Hot Springs-informed, and inspired too, and my first large "Naked Harbin Ethnography:          
   
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" also has a few poems in it, but it is an actual-virtual ethnography (~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~). 


I'm sharing with you 3 poems from my most recent book of poetry, "Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss" - 

Winding Road … and something like poetry came to me / 12
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/05/winding-road.html

In the night I traveled north to Harbin / 17
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-night-i-drove-north-to-harbin.html

The Poetry Commune at Berkeley / 93
Do you know of any poetry which focuses explicitly on the generation of loving bliss neurophysiology, by any chance? :)


Both of my poetry books, if you click through the initial pages, were also published in the Poetry Press at World University & School - 

Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0578435187

Haiku~ish: and Other, Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0692049037

And am planning to publish my 3rd book of poetry this autumn as well. Please let me know if you might be interested in publishing in the Poetry Press at World Univ & Sch, Brett. 

It was very nice to hear, meet and talk with you. Thank you.

Best regards, Scott
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Poetry (see the CC-4 MIT OCW poetry courses here to get an idea of how poetry courses for credit will work; Open wiki WUaS is planned in ~200 countries' main languages, and in all 7,111 known living languages - and accessible from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)




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- World University and School

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Winding Road

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/05/winding-road.html

In The Night I Traveled North To Harbin

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-night-i-drove-north-to-harbin.html


Ocean Water: The Poetry Commune at Berkeley

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/ocean-water-poetry-commune-at-berkeley.html







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