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Chris and Lana Talk About Poetry Purchase The Autobiography of Rain www.fernwoodpress.com/2024/08/05/the-autobiography-of-rain/ Visit Lana's Website lanaayers.com/index2.htm Visit The Older American Poet www.theolderamericanpoet.com

Chris and Lana Talk About Poetry Purchase The Autobiography of Rain www.fernwoodpress.com/2024/08/05/the-autobiography-of-rain/ Visit Lana's Website lanaayers.com/index2.htm Visit The Older American Poet www.theolderamericanpoet.com

Welcome to my channel, where I’ll share poetry from my forthcoming collection, conversations with poets and writers from all over the world, and more. Web: theolderamericanpoet.com Email: theolderamericanpoet@gmail.com C.W. Emerson has received numerous international honors, including as winner of two prizes from Poetry International: the C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize (2018) and co-winner of the 202...

As the preface to a beautifully rendered scholarly volume on “the musical lives of nuns in New Spain,” this poem takes the narrator to church, literally, in the midst of an after dinner, spun-sugar reverie. Web: theolderamericanpoet.com Email: theolderamericanpoet@gmail.com C.W. Emerson has received numerous international honors, including as winner of two prizes from Poetry International: the ...

An intensely personal yet extremely relatable account of living through an “impossible time” and living not only to tell about it, but to thrive. Web: theolderamericanpoet.com Email: theolderamericanpoet@gmail.com C.W. Emerson has received numerous international honors, including as winner of two prizes from Poetry International: the C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize (2018) and co-winner of the 2023-24 ...

In this video, I share a poem inspired by the “education” of a well-known fellow poet, and describe my own coming-of-age, from rural upstate New York, to an imagined Malibu beach, to my eventual desert hideaway. Web: theolderamericanpoet.com Email: theolderamericanpoet@gmail.com C.W. Emerson has received numerous international honors, including as winner of two prizes from Poetry International:...

We all know the type - that ubiquitous “frenemy” who just can’t quite manage to tell the truth, the whole truth, and tells everything but! Web: theolderamericanpoet.com Email: theolderamericanpoet@gmail.com C.W. Emerson has received numerous international honors, including as winner of two prizes from Poetry International: the C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize (2018) and co-winner of the 2023-24 Summer ...

Borrowing (and altering slightly) the opening lines of a beloved Lucille Clifton poem, “hag rider,” I take a leap into the (familiar) perspective of an older gay male mentor. Web: theolderamericanpoet.com Email: theolderamericanpoet@gmail.com C.W. Emerson has received numerous international honors, including as winner of two prizes from Poetry International: the C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize (2018) ...

In this video, I read my poem, “Diva,” discuss the inspiration for writing it, and the process of bringing what’s “larger-than-life” onto the page. Web: theolderamericanpoet.com Email: theolderamericanpoet@gmail.com C.W. Emerson has received numerous international honors, including as winner of two prizes from Poetry International: the C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize (2018) and co-winner of the 2023-2...

This is an excerpt from a three-part poem cycle about the advent of HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles, and the centerpiece of my forthcoming poetry collection, Luminous Body, Glittering Ash. Web: theolderamericanpoet.com Email: theolderamericanpoet@gmail.com C.W. Emerson has received numerous international honors, including as winner of two prizes from Poetry International: the C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize (...

Where do our stories begin? - at the time of our first arrival as immigrants, through the magical world of childhood, to adulthood, where we live out our days both longing for “what was” and dreaming of “what will be . . .” Web: theolderamericanpoet.com Email: theolderamericanpoet@gmail.com C.W. Emerson has received numerous international honors, including as winner of two prizes from Poetry In...