A Light Exists in Spring Emily Dickinson A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period – When March is scarcely here A Color…
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! An Angry Poem About Peace by Michael Shepherd This is an angry poem. About those weasel phrases which blow like paper in the street going nowhere, hiding truth,…
Regarding Chainsaws Hayden Carruth The first chainsaw I owned was years ago, an old yellow McCulloch that wouldn’t start. Bo Bremmer give it to me that was my friend, though…
Every year or so, I resolve to post a poem a day for National Poetry Month. Mostly, I fail, but I am a persistent starter. Here’s day one, from Limericking:…
My husband and daughter left me AGAIN in June, though this time for a shorter period of time. Also at the beginning of the month, I got sick. Like, running…
As some of you may know, my husband left for nine days in Ireland and Scotland in May. So in addition to binge-watching two and a half seasons of Orphan…
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, by Pico Iyer, is not a biography. It’s not a treatise on Tibetan Buddhism or an examination of the…
It’s that time of summer when the waiting begins. Going outside at least several times a day to check the length of the little eggplant forming. The size of the…
Here’s an important lesson I recently learned–when you’re going to a writer’s conference, read the books written by the authors who will be leading workshops and teaching classes. Otherwise you…
One of the latest things buzzing around the book world on the internet is this infographic from Goodreads that sums up why people don’t finish reading books. Interestingly, it also…
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