STONES, BY KEVIN YOUNG – POEM BY POEM Hum I am learning how to sleep again, to love the descent, or is it, lying here,
The Light of Evening, A Brief Life of Jack Foley – to be read nonstop, to cheat evening of its sleep, to learn the breadth
Grim Honey You do not need an MFA in English to read Jessica Barksdale’s latest collection of poetry, you need only to be among the
A NEW CATEGORY – POEM BY POEM More than a year ago, I published a This ‘n That piece about a new category called The
MEMORIZING SHADOWS, INSPIRATION FROM THE ARIZONA TRAIL AND STONE WISHES ON THE COLORADO PLATEAU Because we couldn’t go hiking together in red rock country this
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY POEM BY POEM The poem: Prognosis An old man alone in a house full of books who spits in the sink
THE BEAUTY AND LONG LIFE OF POETRY – After Rain a Little Girl Straightening Worms The poems in this collection are selected from a lifetime
Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry How can an Amy Clampitt poem contribute to diabetes research? How can science lend the missing puzzle piece
Today, while at the South Lake Tahoe farmers market, I met Kim Wyatt, whose Bona Fide Books published a book we reviewed a few weeks
The best reason to belong to the American Academy of Poets is their periodic delivery of books containing the work of new and rising poets. It is both
MERCY, A CLIFTON COLLECTION What a novel can do in three hundred pages, a good poem can do on one. Lucille Clifton does it in
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me – A book for the fearless. Maya Angelou’s poem Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, accompanied by Basquiat’s contemporary art, makes for
This is an older poem, but one I thought just as relevant today as when first written. At The Superior Court Counsel speaks before
Recommending a book for dad is much easier than a title for mom, at least that was my experience when I pounded the brick and
If you are a parent whose child has been introduced to poetry in school this year, you owe it to yourself and your child to
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