“On Writing, Blogging, and Waking Early”

  I’m writing today’s name: Broken footed table.  Now I carry the table into tomorrow’s garden Where sparrows walk on it.  —from a notebook, Finland, 1982 People tend to ask writers when they started writing. I like the question because I can’t  answer it. I remember writing stories about animals when I was approximately four …

Poetry and the Lion’s Mane

By Stephen Kuusisto, co-editor Nine Mile Magazine   Why do lions--male lions--have manes? "Protects them in fights," some say, but lions mostly attack each other at the hips which is a fact like candy or coconuts as Anselm Hollo once said though he wasn't talking about lions. A contrary view: the mane advertises a lion's …