Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Friday, November 16, 2007

The Best Memoirists Pageant Ever! 11/24 in NYC

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Mark your calendars! On Saturday, November 24th at 3 PM The Bowery Poetry Club will host five writers reading excerpts from their memoirs-i...
Sunday, September 09, 2007

Madeleine L'Engle as Poet

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I honestly don't think that L'Engle was as powerful a writer of poetry as she was of prose. Yet, I read her poems, because in her po...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Winter Storm

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Fresh snow standing deep on the phone wire. If you call me, speak softly. Poem from BRAIDED CREEK, A Conversation in Poetry by Jim Harrison ...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

TED KOOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet

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Here's a poem for today, written by one of my favorite authors, Ted Kooser (he was also the Poet Laureate of the United States in 2004)....
Sunday, November 05, 2006

Forest Haiku

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You two, doe and fawn Why do you scatter, shocked when I come each night?
Monday, September 05, 2005

Storm King Mountain: Mystery Artist

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A silent sculptor works the forest, stones balanced with breaths of whimsy.
Saturday, April 09, 2005

On moving to my new house

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Moving once again. How many fewer boxes to hold the air I feel.
Thursday, October 28, 2004

Autumn

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Wet summer, gilt-edged fall, gold trumps orange, auburn, red. Trees, leaves made of light.
Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Moving Out

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Spring dashing free Trucks mired in mud leave tracks that my heart memorizes.
Friday, April 11, 2003

The First Sip of Spring

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Spring turns up in muddy boots Suck…suck…suck at my ankles. Born of a steady, velvet rain, every breath tastes of rebirth. Resurrection. Dwa...
Thursday, March 27, 2003

The Netherlands Weighs In

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This note is from my friend Thé Lau in Amsterdam. He is a recording artist and poet, so I've been eager to hear his thoughts on the cur...
Thursday, March 20, 2003

Sorrow

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I shall believe in sorrow when it comes like the first down-wandering of snow, laying its drift of shadow on my heart, hugging against the ...