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Day 18 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Emily Dickinson, 556 “The Brain Within its Groove”
Today’s poet, much like yesterday’s could be called a formalist, mostly because of her consistent use of rhyme and meter. Both Dickinson and Wilbur were fond of slant rhyme, but Miss Emily, it seems, more so. However, she was anything but traditional for her day. Heck, she’s not that traditional for our day, now that…
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Bonus Track: Matthew MacFadyen Does It Again – this Time with Yeats
It was a good night with the family, though I admit to ordering too many appetizers at the House of the Wolf. But dang, all that recording (20 takes!) this afternoon, and only yogurt and an orange for lunch. I was hungry. See how I suffer for poetry sake? I was excited to get to…
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Day 17 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: “Mind” by Richard Wilbur
Well, unfortunately Mr. FedEX man has not arrived with my oldest son’s replacement phone. So armed with a proper tracking number, I will stand vigil again tomorrow afternoon. Now I am halfway out the door to go have dinner with my boys. I apologize that this photo on the left is the best picture I…
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Bonus Track: Matthew MacFadyen reads Sonnet 29
Well, I got my to-do list mostly covered, and more quickly than I expected. I’m working on what today’s reading will be– What? You think I plan these things ahead of time? Again, dear reader, you give me far too much credit. I may appear to be organized, but that’s all done with smoke and…
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Poultry Slams and Microwaves
I’m up ridiculously early this morning because I have an impossible to-do list today, but it will end over dinner with the three most awesome young men on the planet, my sons. And there just might be time for wee nap before dinner. Hope. So, you’ve probably seen these, if like me, you receive goofy…
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Bonus Track for May Swenson: “Analysis of Baseball,” and Concrete Poetry
We’ve been discussing theories about how to read poems, how to pause, what to do with line endings, etc. As you can imagine, I have a lot more to say about the topic. But don’t worry, like Silverstein’s little girl who ate the whale, we’ll tackle it in small bites. This is a busy couple…
