David J Bauman

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At some point I should get back to actual updates about my own writing and birding activities here, but as you can imagine, I’ve had my hands full with getting the poetry podcast off the ground. Frankly, it’s been a lot of work, but it’s also been a blast. I don’t think I’ve gotten this much enjoyment out of a project for a very long time.

Writing Poems

Meanwhile, I’m meeting about once a week with Micah, my youngest son, to work on our next collection of poems, and I’ve been meeting with three friends every other Sunday evening to workshop poems with each other. Once I start submitting them and getting works published again, I’ll update you on that here.

Birding

In the birding world, I have continued to help with the third edition of the Pennsylvania Bird Atlas, but I just didn’t get out much this winter. I may post a few of the late winter photos I took. Are people still interested in that sort of blog sharing now, in these days of Instagram and Facebook? Let me know your thoughts below in the comments. I mostly treat these posts now as a sort of subscription email newsletter without having to learn how to use Substack (I really don’t like Substack).

Podcast

When it comes to the podcast, we’ve put out four more episodes since I last posted here, so go over to inthreepoems.com or wherever you listen to podcasts and catch up. Or you can just click on the episodes below. You can even watch on YouTube, if that’s your jam. However you tune in, please know that I am so grateful to you for being part of it. We’ll be wrapping up season one in a few weeks and are already lined up for season two!

Recklessness, Precision, and Poetry with Carl Phillips – In Three Poems

In Three Poems, where we get to know today’s poets through reading a couple of their own poems, as well as the works of others who have had an influence on them in some way. Without further delay, today’s poet is Pulitzer Prize winner Carl PhillipsPoem 1: “Sunlight and Fog” by Carl Phillips from Scattered Snows, to the North, published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, read here by David J. Bauman.Poem 2: “And If I Fall” from Then the War, and Selected Poems, 2007 – 2020, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (2023), written and read by Carl Phillips.Poem 3:“Chinese Bowls” by Stefanie Marlis, from her book Slow Joy, published by University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. Carl Phillips is the author of 17 books of poetry, most recently Scattered Snows, to the North (2024) and Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. His other honors include the 2021 Jackson Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets.Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022); and he has translated the Philoctetes of Sophocles (Oxford University Press, 2004).Links:Scattered Snows, to the NorthThen, the WarMy Trade Is MysteryText the show!Support the show

1. Recklessness, Precision, and Poetry with Carl Phillips 54:29
2. From Drowning to Joy: Poetry with Justin Strawser 32:54
3. Continental Drift, Poetry and Migration with Mai-Linh Hong 39:39
4. Spark Birds and Poetry with Katie Manning 38:35
5. Common Sense, America 250 and Erasure Poetry with Crystal Simone Smith 35:55

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