I got a lot of postcards and enjoyed the cards themselves and the words written on them. Some of the poems were striking, one gave me chills (in a good way) and all made the connection we all hope for: … Continue reading →
There I was, writing a too-long poem for August Poetry Postcard and… a bat appears. Let me just say, I moved pretty darn fast. Locked myself in the bathroom while I tried to figure out what to do, having no … Continue reading →
This very cool 360 experience from the NYTimes
Footnote 151.22 re Sappho (From William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, Edited by Robert Pinsky) This is a translation of Sappho’s Fragment 71. When it was published in Poems in Folio (1957), Williams included this note: I am 73 years old. … Continue reading →
For Day 3, NaPoWriMo wrote: “Today I’d like to challenge you to write an elegy – a poem that mourns or honors someone dead or something gone by. And I’d like to ask you to center the elegy on an … Continue reading →
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
