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I feel poetry is changing, like everything else in our times, and I'm searching for my own 'definition' of what I think modern poetry could, or should, be: it is performance, it is music, it is painting, it is love, and above all it is art, and no new art can stand to live disconnected, or breathe without some manifesto. So, here I will call this new thing 'Poetica'; it is a little monster collectively born of our time, and it is ours, collectively. Ours, Poetica. (Which was the original title of this blog, but with time, I found it was hard to say, and liked the sound of image&poem as a future imprint of our studio's work.)

I am a MFA student in Poetry at NC State University, apprenticing under Dorianne Laux and John Balaban, with recent poems having appeared in War, Literature, and the Arts (link) and the North Carolina Poetry Society's awards anthology, Pinesong (link). I am currently writing my first collection of verse, Whales with Dragon Wings.

In addition to poetry, I create art photography. And, with my lovely partner in life, Andrew Stieneke, I shoot photojournalism portraits and cover a select number of events each year, with our studio named for William Blake, In a Wildflower.

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Rain in Greenriver

Every hot, dry day at 2 
dirge purple clouds 
come over the distant, 
dark mountains

Every afternoon, 3:15, 
in the ancient Utah climate, 
bulbous desert calvus-clouds deflate, 
filling crag and gorge.

Shoals of debris twist 
in tiny rapids, white 
and grey, that grow thick 
brown with frothy rain

Down at the river 
where the tan earth turns green, 
the water, once in trickles, 
roars – tearing away seedlings,

a cactus bud, fat-blooming 
yellow, like a rose, 
grows a wilting perch 
for a wet, grey titmouse, 
still and silent in the storm

*poem by Cari Grindem-Corbett, originally published in North Carolina Poetry Society’s publication Pinesong, and is published here again on her art blog. 

Posted on Saturday, September 24th 2011

Tags poetry poem utah rain imagism summer writing lit weather nature desert