Four Blue Heron
March 15, 2012
2011 Walk Award
By Cindi Williamson
Four Blue Heron*
At once four blue heron lifted,
flying toward the lake
with necks curled up
like paper clips,
their feet fluttering like
loose threads behind them,
like long useless fringe.
I thought to wake you
But they were gone
as soon as they appeared.
And all that remained
were the swelling trees,
with hollow places
among the branches
filling up with green
water where the heron walk.
*Copyright 2011 by Cindi Williamson. Hear and see Cindi Williamson reading Four Blue Heron on YouTube. Placard design by Egress Studio.
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rainy day poetry…
February 25, 2012
Hungering for a little poetry in your ear? Don’t feel like venturing out? Check out Poetry in Motion, a YouTube channel dedicated to clips from film and TV that include recitations of poetry.
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Splendor in the Grass
see poets / hear poetry
December 30, 2011
Once again, the Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest is hugely grateful to Bellingham TV Channel 10 (BTV10) for their support and assistance in taping 17 of the winning poets from the 2011 contest. The resulting clips of the poets reading their poems are shown between other programming on BTV10 and can also be viewed (along with the 2010 poets) on the Sue Boynton Poetry channel on YouTube.
The 2011 featured poets are Caleb Barber, Richard Blake, Laura Boynton, Eric Carr, Dakota Carson, Linda Conroy, Denise duMaurier, Norman L. Green, Sandra F. Lucke, Carolyn McCarthy, Rachel Mehl, Kevin Murphy, Lara Niedermeyer, Timothy Pilgrim, George Such, Cindi Williamson and Kobe Woodruff. Links to the text of the winning poems can also be found on the Winners page.
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Boynton poets on YouTube
October 10, 2011
Just a reminder that you can hear twelve 2010 Sue Boynton Poetry Contest winners reading their poems on YouTube. Just click on a name below to see and hear…
Abigail Carr
David P. Drummond
Jo Ann Heydron
Evan Ingalls
Carolyn McCarthy
Kevin Murphy
Sheila Nickerson
Paul Piper
Luke Reinschmidt
Kim Roe
Ellie Rogers
Carla Shafer
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special thanks to BTV10!
the open mic…5
June 29, 2011
Poet Carla Shafer, a founder of the Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater, is a two-time Walk Award winner: 2007 and 2010. You can see her reading her 2010 poem, Migrant, on YouTube, here. She shares the following (poetic) reflection on the personal value of open mic readings:
“Knowing I have Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater’s open mic to prepare for, I scrabble together a poem. Whatever has been quietly rumbling around in my head gets matched to the sighting just moments ago of a song sparrow eating and chasing an orange butterfly. Once again a poem reaches out to me and I had no idea that it would. By itself this moment is rich as butter. In the writing, the moment is reshaped into something new but reflective; however, when I read the poem aloud to a room full of attentive friends, I learn a lot about the words I’ve chosen, how they sound, and where the sense of the poem touches the listeners. Just as the poem now uncovers experience, reading the words aloud uncovers how even small things I witness might fit into the larger conversation. Is it bigger than the minutes it took to shape a fragment of the world into a poem? How I feel about the poem may not change in reading it aloud, but a new textual layer associates with it that I can almost touch. This encourages me.”
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poetry out loud…
June 21, 2011
Just a reminder that a dozen of the 2010 contest winners can be heard and seen reading their poems on YouTube thanks to Bellingham TV10.
Search for Sue C. Boynton on YouTube or click on the poet’s name below to go directly to his or her reading.
Abigail Carr
David P. Drummond
Jo Ann Heydron
Evan Ingalls
Carolyn McCarthy
Kevin Murphy
Sheila Nickerson
Paul Piper
Luke Reinschmidt
Kim Roe
Ellie Rogers
Carla Shafer
We hope to be recording some of the 2011 winners in the coming months. Thanks again to BTV10!
To a Slug in Winter
April 29, 2011
It may be spring, but there’s still time to appreciate Paul S. Piper‘s 2010 Walk Award-winning poem, To a Slug in Winter, which he reads here on YouTube, thanks to BTV10. You can also read Paul’s poem here.
After Being Called “Girlie” at the Hardware Store
April 25, 2011
See and hear Kim Roe reading her 2010 winning poem, After Being Called “Girlie” at the Hardware Store, on YouTube – or read Kim’s poem here. Special thanks (again) to BTV10.
Guillemots
April 19, 2011
You can hear and see 2010 Walk Award winner David P. Drummond reading his poem, Guillemots, on YouTube and you can also read his poem here.
see poet, hear poetry…
April 13, 2011
Sheila Nickerson reads her 2010 award-winning poem, In a University Town: September, on YouTube. Her poem can also be read here. Special thanks to BTV10!
