It’s a dark time of year, especially this year, and it strikes me that one of our questions right now — as a people, I mean, as human beings in this shared endeavor — has to be how to heal a broken world. The picture, from http://www.bluemountain.com/blog/2011/12/its-time-for-the-winter-solstice/, made me think of Dorianne Laux’s poetry book, Facts about the […]
And wouldn’t you know it, Garrison Keillor salutes her today with one of my favorite Dickinson poems. I hope you have time to give it a listen.
I had a very cool experience yesterday evening, reading poems with Holly Hughes and a few of her poetry students — including my friend Shana — at Edmonds Community College. Also eating chocolate cake. One of the many things we talked about was publication. I’m tired of sending this poem out and having it rejected. […]
My student Christian Zerbel stars in this video (8 minutes), produced for the EvCC Clipper by another of my students, Paul Edwards. If you’re wondering what’s going to happen on Dec. 21, 2012, perhaps you should watch it, too.