Dave Bonta

The Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force (HETF), the environmental branch of the traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) government, issued a statement today calling on New York State to ban the permitting of natural gas drilling. - Dave Bonta

"Nice! Your Twitter link yields a 404, though." - Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta posted on the forum topic Tom Konyves in the group Video Poetry: To be clear, the video haiku I was mentioning earlier have no connection to actual haiku poems; they’re simply art films consisting of three scenes of five seconds’, seven secends’, and five seconds’ duration respectively, based on the popular conception of haiku as a three-line poem with 5-7-5 syllables. (That is a silly and limiting [...] - Dave Bonta

"Thanks, Deb and Dylan. I am not sure we ended this as well as we could've -- we kind of ran out of steam -- but since we ended where we began in a geographic sense, in Ukraine, one could read it as an endless loop, I suppose. I am continuing to find new meanings in Patricia's contributions. Her background in formal verse really paid off here, I think." - Dave Bonta

"Now that's an image that's going to stick with me." - Dave Bonta

"Thank you, Kris! I love Falling Off the Mountain -- it's one of my favorite daily reads." - Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta posted on the forum topic SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse 2009 in the group Video Poetry: Thanks for the notice, Heather! I hope everyone in Vancouver and the Pacific northwest will consider making the trip. - Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta commented on the blog post poetry and performance: how to sing, or the fine art of reading poetry in front of an audience These are great tips, both in the comments and and in the post. I would urge anyone with an interest in this topic to joing the RWP poetry and performance group. Nothing beats practice. Once I decide on the optimal reading of a poem, I will use a pencil to make little marks above the [...] - Dave Bonta