It’s been two weeks of dodging my work and trying to walk away from images in the news. But I’m pleased to recommend poet Sharon Bryan’s poetry blog and its new series of conversations, often on the very topics I’d most like to avoid. In this week’s post, Sharon writes, “Not surprisingly, the terrible destruction in […]
I recently emailed my writer’s group with this link to a conversation, Facts Into Poems, between Dorianne Laux and Jane Hirshfield, sponsored by Alaska Quarterly Review. It’s a tutorial about how to write about deep, difficult topics — which, as we all know, abound. I’ve been a bit “off” about posting here of late, but […]
This was originally a Peace-Postcard poem, written last February 14. So timely. Click on the link to take a look: One Art And Happy Valentine’s Day, Bruce.
Last week one of my oldest cousins died. The oldest? Well, the oldest one still with us. Patricia was 86, the youngest child in this photograph from about 1937. My mother is the little girl in the middle, back row. My aunt Darlene is in the front row. I called Darlene this evening and we […]