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Flashback Friday, Matthew MacFadyen Does Poems
I know, the recent trend is Throwback Thursday, but as a poet, I just cannot do it. Too many other meanings to “throwback.” When I was a kid dad took us fishing, and the fish that were too small got thrown back. I cannot help associate throwbacks with things that are not worth keeping, things…
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A Thursday Love Poem, Samuel West Makes a “Proposal”
It’s the third Thursday of (inter)National Poetry Month and we have yet to indulge ourselves in a Thursday Love Poem. Well, we are overdue, aren’t we? We started this occasional feature back in October with the poem which serves as its flagship piece, “Thursday,” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. If you want to get an…
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April Snow and Some School Bus Poems
Actually, I think we escaped this year with barely a flurry. Wait. I may be speaking too soon, the forecast I’m looking at on my tablet has rain with a low of 28° F this Tuesday and a slight chance of a flurry. And that’s despite a ridiculous summer preview today with a high just…
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You Don’t Even Like Poetry, or Do You?
This Week in Poetry, Even for Non-Poets I am truly tickled to see so much being written about poetry during this (inter)National Poetry Month to an audience outside the traditional poetry scene. Often people who claim to dislike poetry merely had a bad experience, likely in high school, as Billy Collins likes to say “the place…
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Understanding Poetry
A second reblog for today, this time a graphic. What do you think? Worth discussing, no?
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the good housekeeper
Ah, this modern classic from Jaime Dedes is too good not to share. But why do I get a spring cold just in time for spring cleaning?
