I’ve been feeling a tad bit overwhelmed, so I won’t attempt my post-a-day (let alone the poem-a-day) this month, as I have in previous years. But I do want to make some recommendations. The first is to visit Joannie Stangeland’s blog where she is posting a poetry prompt per day. Here is the first: April […]
In the mail on Saturday — two copies of the very fine new issue of The Santa Clara Review. (Click on this link to go to an on-line version.) My poems, “Where She Lies Down,” and “In Her Dream of Winter,” appear on pages 59 and 61.
My friend Susan recently told me an inspiring story, and she gave me permission to share it here. Susan is an utterly sane cat lady. Bona fide. Not long ago a friend at a shelter called her to ask if she would take a cat that had been traumatized. “This cat is going to die […]
This evening I am attending the wedding celebration of my cousin’s daughter. In that spirit, here is an audio clip of Richard Wilbur reading his poem, “A Wedding Toast.” (See the link.) https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/wedding-toast-audio-only?mbd=1