Posted in independent publisher, independent writing, indie writing, marriage, personal, tagged leaf, maple leaf, nature, photo, Sherron Burns, sign of spring, spring photo, visual art, yard work on May 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
A lovely photo by Sherron, taken on our back deck.
The sunny weather means that I’ve been outside, raking and doing yardwork…and found the imprint of a maple leaf, pressed into the cement.
The picture I took wasn’t nearly as nice…
Photo by Sherron Burns
Posted in Books, fantasy, fiction, free fiction, free reading, independent publisher, independent writing, indie writer, Literature, Mars, Prose poems, Reading, Science fiction, short story, space age, Uncategorized, writer, tagged Crandleberry's, Feed the Artist, first man on Mars, future, Mars, Mars landing, postcard story, Science fiction, short story, simulation, technology on March 9, 2013 | 3 Comments »
A local arts collective, Feed the Artist, distributed blank postcards and asked folks to write themselves a “message from the future”.
I really like the people behind the group so I was happy to contribute. Here’s my offering—you can see all the postcards by dropping by Crandleberry’s (coffehouse & cyber cafe) and viewing the display. And a reminder that the second issue of the Feed the Artist magazine, featuring many fine artists, will be launched at Crandleberry’s Friday, March 15th, 7:00 p.m.
Hope to see you there.
(Click on images to enlarge)
Posted in ambient music, electronic music, electronica, free music, iMovie, independent writer, independent writing, indie writer, Literature, movie, Music, Science fiction, space age, space music, writer, writing, tagged "First Contact", abstract, alien planet, cinema, experimental, free download, free movie, many worlds, movie, Science fiction, short film, space, Youtube on January 31, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Taking a break from writing, concocted and edited a new short film.
“Exoplanet”…a love letter to science fiction.
Dedicated to Ian Sales and other bringers of wonder:
Posted in author blog, Book review, Books, Essays and reviews, free reading, history, Horror, independent publisher, independent writing, indie writer, Literary criticism, Literature, Reading, travel, Uncategorized, writing, tagged "Travels in Siberia", Cold War, gulag, Ian Frazier, Joshua Hammer, New York Times, prison camp, Russia, Soviet, Stalin on January 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
After a long drive across the frozen wastes of Lake Baikal, Frazier arrived at a long-abandoned prison camp near the town of Topolinoe. The camps along the Topolinskaya Highway were among the most dreaded destinations in Stalin’s gulag, the prison system that claimed the lives of more than a million people during the height of the Great Terror in 1937 and 1938. Frazier walked through one of the barracks where inmates starved and froze in the Siberian winter: “This interior offered little to think about besides the limitless periods of suffering that had been crossed off here, and the unquiet rest these bunks had held.” As always, Frazier locates the apt historical anecdote that captures the horror with precision. He tells the story of two child prisoners who were given a pair of guard-dog puppies to raise, then struggled to find names for them: “The poverty of their surroundings had stripped their imaginations bare. Finally they chose names from common objects they saw every day. They named one puppy Ladle and the other Pail.”
-Joshua Hammer (from his New York Times review of Ian Frazier’s Travels in Siberia)
Posted in author blog, Black Dog Press, Books, fiction, independent publisher, independent writing, indie writer, Literature, new literary fiction, New release, Poetry, Prose poems, publishing, writing, writing life, tagged book cover, book launch, Canadian writer, fiction, Literature, New & Selected Poems (1984-2011), new books, Poetry, short short stories, Stromata on September 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in author blog, Black Dog Press, book launch, Books, independent publisher, independent writing, indie writer, literary, Literature, New release, Poetry, Prose poems, writer, writing, writing life, tagged book launch, Canadian literature, Canadian poetry, fiction, monologues, new books, New release, Poetry, prose, Prose poems, short short stories, Short Stories on September 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The official launch of my two latest efforts, New & Selected Poems and Stromata: Prose Works, is October 4th, 2012. Sherron created a wonderful event poster. Hope to see you there:
(Click on the poster in order to view it full size)
Posted in author blog, Black Dog Press, book launch, Books, independent publisher, independent writing, indie writer, Literature, New release, Poetry, writer, writing, writing life, tagged apocalyptic poetry, Books, intense, new and selected poems, new book, personal, Poetry on August 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s official:
New & Selected Poems is listed for purchase from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
…and, of course, you can place an order through your favorite bookstore. God bless the indies!
Finally, you can drop a money order my way and get a personally inscribed copy.
I want to remind everyone that this volume is only available as a “dead tree” edition—no Kindle or e-book versions envisioned at this time.
And if you could see and pick up and handle the book, you’d understand why. It’s beautiful and should be experienced as a tactile, physical object, a relic from another time.
I love this book…and hope you will too.
Posted in author blog, free reading, independent publisher, independent writing, indie writer, Literature, Poetry, Reading, Surrealism, tagged contemporary verse, free reading, poem, poem for the day, Poetry, surreal on June 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“THIS DOOR IS ALARMED”
& that window refuses to
hold out false hope
that those walls can
stand the strain
or this floor bear
the load
much longer
C. Burns (June, 2012)
Posted in author blog, Books, fiction, free fiction, independent writing, indie writer, inspiration, Literature, short story, Surrealism, writer, writing, tagged Adrian Villar Rojas, Captain Ahab, flash fiction, Moby Dick, prose poem, whale sculpture on May 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ahab stalks it still, through the swollen underbrush, its trail wide and easy to follow, marked by pulverized tree trunks, a long, deep, snaking rut in the soft loam of the forest floor.
He will follow it to the very gates of Perdition, if necessary, his hate a goad, relentless and all-consuming.
Hobbling along in the wake of the great whale, knowing it is somewhere ahead, moving easily across the earth, surging forward with powerful thrusts, swimming through seas of bright green.
* * * * *
Yes, I know some of you might recognize this snippet from a recent Facebook post but I couldn’t help reprinting it here, for those who missed it. It’s probably my favorite prose piece of the past few weeks. Sherron sent me some photos of Adrian Villar Rojas’ elegant sculpture and I immediately scribbled out a response. It gave me goosebumps once I finished it.
This one just feels…right.
