Author Archives: geoclark

Lines in the Landscape

Today I read my poem ”A Tentative Psalm” at the Fruitlands Plein Air Poetry Celebration, alongside fellow poets featured in the chapbook Lines in the Landscape: Plein Air Poetry at Fruitlands.

Thanks to the jurors (Elizabeth Cooper, Susan Edwards Richmond, and Mark Schafer), chapbook editors (Susan Edwards Richmond and Maggie Green), and fellow poets (Louise Berliner, Zachary Bos, Terry House, Franny Osman, Georgia Sassen, Corinne H. Smith, and Kirk Westphal).

Following the chapbook readings, headliners X. J. Kennedy and the Light Brigade read their brilliantly funny work.  The Plein Air Poetry project is sponsored by Fruitlands Museum and the Concord Poetry Center.

Lines in the Landscape

Cover Design by Mary Delaney, Photo by Mark Schafer.

Music for Earl Scruggs

Earl Scruggs passed away yesterday.  The Adagio Sostenuto from Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata played on banjo by Bela Fleck is good music to listen to today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKylUfV7mWU .

Slowly, Last Summer

Resonator Elementary School

My local school in Massachusetts had a fundraiser for a new school wing. You could buy a ceramic tile to paint. The tiles have now been installed on the school’s walls, and this is the lovely result:

I made a tile with a resonator guitar (the generic name for what most people know as a Dobro®) on it. I hope it will encourage at least one kid to find out more about this beautiful instrument.  Maybe we’ll see him or her play at the Ryman some day! Or maybe even better, playing with friends on somebody’s front porch.  I was glad that they installed my tile down at kindergartener level.  It’s in a different corridor from the above photo.

New at Wixward: Reso Mugs and Shirts

At my CafePress store, Wixward, we now have a trifecta of mugs, hats, and shirts.

Resonator Represent!

From the shameless commercial self-promotion department:

Tired of hiding your enthusiasm for the resonator guitar under a bushel? Resonator represent! Share your resothusiasm by wearing some resonator schwag from my new store, Wixward, at wixward.com or cafepress.com/wixward. So far, shirts and hats, some centered around the fictional community of Doborough, Mass., where the the local high school is the Resonatahs.  Yes, my fellow southerners, we do have a raving bluegrass scene up here.  Other schwag says “resonator.”  “I <3 Reso,” and “big tent bluegrass.”  P.S. Where does the name “wixward” come from?  In yet another geeky moment, I named it after my ham radio callsign, W1XW.

Twilight on North Mountain

This is a fused glass plate that I made this week.

What Is It?

This doodle is more interesting if you can guess what inspired it:

Things That Are Lonesome

Things that are lonely or lonesome in my iTunes title list: boy, stranger, weekends, dobro, feeling, for you, for you darling, highway, river, road, valley, whistle, wind.

Google “Askew”

Google “askew” for a sort of visual poetry.  Try it.  It works in Firefox, not sure about Explorer.  This Easter egg has apparently been around for a while, but I hadn’t seen it.  It was fun to run into in the regular course of searching.