Cookbooks, Compost Heaps, and Poetry Booby Traps: A Conversation with Poet and Pie-maker Kate Lebo
Ali Shapiro and I talk about reading pies/eating poems on the Ploughshares blog.
Kate Lebo for the Hedreen Gallery
photos by Steven Miller
From a Tree day 8 - Tarragon:
The belief
that a plant’s name
reflects its possible uses…
From a Tree day 6 - Chanterelles:
Lookalikes can make a person very ill.
The most recognized chanterelle comes
from the Greek
kantharos
meaning cup…
From a Tree day 5 - Marionberry:
For the former mayor, breeding is a cross
between a large spine and a deep thaw…
From a Tree day 3 - Pluot:
Amigo: a hint of bleeding
Tropical Plumana: red-spotted, red juicy…
Rhubarb on Ink Node
NOT FOOLIN’: Every day in April I’m going to publish a bit of from FROM A TREE, an erasure series I started for the Seattle Weekly’s Voracious blog last summer. Each of these poems started life as a Wikipedia entry. I’m calling the lot of them a “lyric grocery.” If I do this every day I will finish the manuscript, so friends, please hold me to this! Thank you for reading! Thanks to Ink Node for providing a cool space to self-publish! Happy National Poetry Month!
Stringbean Productions let me say the f-bomb in a Pie School video! That’s not how they captured the ethos of this project better than any other video interviewer, but it certainly helped. Pie might be a sweet subject, but wholesome is not the whole story. We’ll make more mini pie documentaries this spring and summer, so stay tuned!#
