Here we are, May 2025, and the world feels upside down and sideways. Despite all this, poets are going to poet, and artist are going to art. Creative people will continue to do their part…I’m thankful to live in a country where freedom of expression is still available to its citizens.
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Corridor Zine: Submit Your Art and Poetry Today!
Calling all poets and artists along the I-5 Corridor! The zine “Corridor” needs you. The submission deadline is the 15th of each month. See below for details, FAQs, and other mind-blowing information.
World Poetry Day: Reflecting on East Coker by T.S. Eliot
Today, March 21, 2025, is World Poetry Day. People everywhere are encouraged to share, read, or write a poem. I would like to share a poem with you, by T.S. Eliot, called “East Coker.”
This poem came to me, discovered me or perhaps I discovered it, just at the right time. I was approaching 50 and doing that thing many of us do — trying to understand life, and my purpose in it. Poetry to the rescue!
The Intersection of AI and Poetry: Thoughts on Creativity
Do you have an opinion about A.I. in the creative world? I enjoyed listening to my poems as songs. It was easy to generate, took less than 2 minutes and it was free. Is it low-hanging fruit, another tool in the toolbox, or just pure creative laziness?
Heartfelt Contributions: February’s Corridor Highlights
This months Corridor takes a deeper dive into Febraury. Gives up some heart shaped food for thought on a paper platter. Here is the cover, below are the contributors. Keep your heartlight lit and your eyes searching for this piece of found art around town. Copies go out starting the first two weeks of February. Coffee shops, book stores, Little Free Libaries and the like.
Meet the Creative Minds Behind Corridor Vol. 23
Volume 23 of Corridor will be printed and distributed in the first two weeks of January. Here is the cover. Keep your eyes out for it! Copies are always available at the breezeway between Village Books and the Colophon Cafe. Copies go fast!
Corridor Zine’s Festive Cover and Collective Creativity
The second reason I’m excited, more people keep finding the zine and sending us photos and comments. It’s pretty neat. I’m thankful for all the love and attention. More importantly, I’m thankful that it seems the zine is meeting its goal. The goal of Corridor is to connect with complete strangers. Constructive work touches an unsuspecting mind. There are many beautiful micro events in the world, and this is one of them.
A Journey Through Seasonal Poetry and Reflection
Sharing an old poem today. I met up with two poet friends to edit and discuss each other’s poems at a local deli. The weather in western Washington dipped below 40 degrees today. Snow is forecast for next week. The sky is flat gray. Is this the in-between times?
November Corridor is OUT!
Corridor the FREE poetry and art zine is making its way around town. Home-printed paper copies will be placed in various Tiny Free Librays in Whatcom County, cafes, bookstores, and other shops. Keep your eyes out for them. We are trying to keep copies available at the downstairs breezeway between the Colophon Cafe and Village Books in Fairhaven. However, they go fast.
October Corridor #20: Discover Local Poetry and Art
The October Corridor #20 edition is out. Copies will be printed and distributed throughout Whatcom County and beyond over the next two weeks. Such a joy to read and see so many splendid submissions and art. Keep your eyes open for them. Cafe Blue and The Firehouse Cafe are two new independent stores where you can find copies. As always, 5-10 copies are placed on the shelves in Fairhaven Village Books in the breezeway between the bookstore and the Colophon Cafe. Sometimes they go FAST, so get a copy when you can.
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