This Labor Day Weekend I was up in Vancouver, Canada for a book launch “Poet and the Paper Boat” by Korean poet Bong Ja Ahn. The book is the second in her English-Korean Poetry Anthology. This was a beautiful event held at a community center, upstairs in a corner room. Large windows and balcony doorsContinueContinue reading “Bong Ja Ahn’s Paper Boat”
Author Archives: Shannon Laws
Event: Tagore Festival
West Coast Tagore Festival 2013Tagore, b.May 7, 1861- d.August 7 1941, Indian poet, short-story writer, song composer, novelist, playwright, essayist, and painter. Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and theContinueContinue reading “Event: Tagore Festival”
Poetry: Robert Lashley
“Boards occupy a space between the mind andthe construction of the temporal. Cadences.” R.LashleyRobert Lashley Robert Lashley Robert LashleyLace covered lamp shade winksAs you walk toward the micCeiling fan squeaks approval of your presence Coffee shop poets snap anticipationAs your hand finds your poemIn a notebook of poemsNoble Prince of PoetryRoyal Performer of WordsNational ManagerContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Robert Lashley”
Poetry: Evening Walk
EVENING WALKIn an evening walkI’ll calculate my next moveCoordinate my conversationsConsider the risksConceive inspirationAn evening walk willTidy my headWarm my heartMake my nose runRed scarf flies like a flagOf freedom and lifeWrapped around meCoiled across my mouthThat’s speaking only fogUnder the street lightsI travel across timeThe sidewalk is my pathStreet signs guide meThe alleyway homeLightsContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Evening Walk”
Poetry: Landmark
stone marker stabbed into earth nail cross hammered north to south drawsthe boundary once cared for by neighbor’sneed to see where ones property ends another beginsadopted by the city as reference for roadshow many like these are in my mind, metal pierced monuments to touch, places to visit beforeI go to dream crossing linesdrawn in sand****Photo: EnglishContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Landmark”
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Artist Profile/B’ham Herald
Artist Profile Interview from June 2013
By MARGARET BIKMAN — THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
Shannon Laws, photo credit Cheryl Ford, 2013
Shannon P. Laws was born in Seattle and raised in Federal Way, where, she says, “as a teenager I learned that when a guy from Auburn asks you out on a date, he will most likely pick you up in a stolen car.”
Almost 8
Morning offering of beer bottles gather on the last step laid over, laid up, slept past last callMy coffee in too small a cup sits with me at a table that limpsConstruction worker walks from sandwich shop to truck, early enough for the dirty professions, still too early for the clean, those bleached-sterile by fluorescent preserved in recycled airTrash inContinueContinue reading “Almost 8”
Seagulls- 1, Crows- 0
Bellingham is an interesting place to live. If you do not agree, I recommend an early walk around the neighborhood. Remnants of our lively nightlife are evident in the early hours. Left overs like a cigarette butt nest of empty beer bottles near the last step of an apartment building, and used rubbers, hint toContinueContinue reading “Seagulls- 1, Crows- 0”
Poetry: Refugio’s Hair
One of my favorite poems… Refugio’s Hair In the old days of our family, My grandmother was a young woman Whose hair was as long as the river. She lived with her sisters on the ranch La Calera– The Land of the Lime– And her days were happy. But her uncle Carols lived there too,ContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Refugio’s Hair”
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