Michael Janairo

Hi all, If you are nominating poetry for this year’s Rhysling awards, here are my eligible poems: Short poem “Chaos Theory: The Butterfly Wings Set” Abridged 0-60: Echoes, Summer 2020, https://www.abridged.zone/echoes-3-chaos-theory-the-butterfly-wings-set Long poem “An Offering” Line of Advance: 2020 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Awards, September 2020 https://www.lineofadvance.org/blog/2020/9/21/an-offering

So long, 2020!

Someday, 2020 will make sense. As the year draws to a close, there are a few pre-pandemic “lasts” to remember. Last movie at a movie theater: “1917” on Feb. 2 — Glad I saw it in a theater on a big screen. At the theater I often go to, there is rarely a big crowd forContinue reading “So long, 2020!”

Merry Christmas!

Video poem: Mami Wata by Linda Addison

My latest purchase: Ruth Asawa stamps

Will this help USPS? Are you familiar with Ruth Asawa? Get to know more about this great American artist here: https://ruthasawa.com/ Also check out the exhibition from David Zwirner Gallery in 2017 here https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/ruth-asawa

Video poem: Tend by F.J. Bergmann

Line of Advance Announces Winners of 2020 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Awards

Thank you to Line of Advance for selecting my poem for the 2020 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Awards

New poem just published in Abridged

Check out my latest experiment in language, a poem called “Chaos Theory: The Butterfly Wing Set” recently published in the online poetry/art journal Abridged, out of Northern Ireland. You can find the poem here: https://www.abridged.zone/echoes-3-chaos-theory-the-butterfly-wings-set/