Poetry News Items

Some recent publications and appearances --

• Poetry Scotland published Creeks -- a past and present poem -- in Issue 108. Thanks to Editors Andy Jackson and Judy Taylor. The poem is below.

  
  

• One More Time -- all about a spat -- appears in Lenticular's 3rd Issue. Thanks to Editor R. Cleffi. The link to the poem is here -- Lenticular

  
  

• Jack Ridl (All At Once; CavanKerry, 2024) shares the featured mic with Larew on this month's The Poetry Place Program, co-hosted by poet Dawn Gorman and her colleague, Peter O'Grady. The program airs on the UK's West Wils Radio at 3 pm British Time on Oct 27, 2024. Some other poets who grace the show include Brian Donnell James, Grace Cavalieri and Joy Gaines-Friedler. Here's the link to the Program's website -- The Poetry Place – West Wilts Radio

  
  

• Last but not least, Larew's next collection, This Much Very, will be published in early 2025 by Alien Buddha Press.

Creeks

Maybe it wasn't the same back then

But better

It's hard to know --

Two young men one dark one light

Jumping into together

To swim the heat away

This just as my life is closing its windows

With a view through curtains

Loved with dust

And with trees gone quiet

So even as much as I don't dare to

As I watch them

I think of creeks

I imagine back then

How such friends must have thrown water and grins

At each other

And how with everything else flowing by

Then or now

They would have never thought of me

I wonder too if I could be like them ever again --

Probably not

But that doesn't stop me and my envy

From waving across wide worlds

To join them

As their laughs like history float up

Through the willows