vazambam

new old kid on the blog, with an occasional old or new poem written off the old writer's block

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Reading: A Literal Looking Glass

7.30 in the morning light hard at work looking for something illuminating upon which to reflect. (Photo courtesy of my inspiring inspi...

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Clozed, You Klutzes

You say____ know A healthy____ Leads to a____ mind And ____-versa but I ask all you out ____clamoring to get in- Doors____ o...

Monday, June 27, 2011

To One Who Still Thinks He's a Has-been

Friend, We’ve been there before, No longer— No use to say no Good as we used to Any longer.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

A Not So Simple Desultory Thought

Don’t even Think about it How many leaves Did you see fall before The one you were thinking of fell?

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Rembetiko, Dead and Alive!

Rembetiko'dan by koxuz One of the reasons why the Greek spirit will never go bankrupt. (Set volume at full blast, please--loud enou...

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Bio Degradable

vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras): Meligalas, Messenias, Greece; Born in Greece, I was taken at the age of four to the small town of Raymond, WA in 1948. After high school, I attended the University of Washington but dropped out after a year, spent 1963-1964 traveling in Europe and in Greece, settling in Munich until getting drafted into the US Army. After my discharge, I completed my sophomore year at GHC, Aberdeen, WA, then transferred to the UW where I received an MA in English. In 1970, I co-founded the poetry magazine Madrona and also worked for the Seattle Housing Authority before returning to Greece in 1972. I married Eleni in 1980 and we have a daughter, Efiniki, 42, and a son, Anastasios, 40. I'm now retired from teaching ESL in my language school in Meligalas but still writing poetry--which I've been doing for the last forty-plus years. My poems have been published in various literary magazines in the US and abroad. A number of my poems were also included in the anthology How The Net Is Gripped: a selection of contemporary American Poetry (Stride, UK, 1992), and I have two collections of poetry, Sentences (Querencia Books, 1976), and Aural (Singing Horse Press, 1984).

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