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Weekly Reading Out Loud Challenge: William Stafford
I’ll be posting my reading of this poem tonight. How about you? Why not? Do you recall the game, “Oh Henry?” You can change the meaning just by the inflections, the tone, the voice. It can be angry, sad, wistful, commanding, inquisitive. While a full poem is not quite so ambiguous, there is some room…
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Of Supermoons, Lovers and My Poems on the Lips of Others
I wasn’t going to make a post like this. It felt too self-aggrandizing. But I decided, however I explain or justify it, not making this post would be more wrong at this point. I am just so deeply grateful for the way these two people put my poems into their own voices. It is an…
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Under the Poetry Tree, Reading Vultures Out Loud
Wait. Strike that. Reverse it. But on second thought, I think the title works quite well, as we gather under the poetry tree to read about vultures to each other, and something about them, a truth never heard spoken, but that rings true to the core. That’s what poetry is about. Tonight I found this…
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Father’s Day Pizza and Poems
No, there are no commas in that title. It is not a list. Although it could be, now that I think of it. So let’s leave the ambiguity, and the possibility of multiple meaning on the table, shall we? It was Father’s Day on Sunday here in the sunny Sometimes-United States of Americans. It was…
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Reading Poems Out Loud with John–Emily Dickinson Edition
Friend and Fellow blogger John Nooney at Poetically Versed has started a feature that I hope will catch on. If you’ve been following my rantings here on the Dad Poet for any length of time you already know how important I think it is to read poetry out loud. I mean, if it were not,…
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Of Rejections and Successes
There is so much I’d like to post about today, since I had been mostly absent of late. But before I get carried away talking about what and whom I’ve been reading, here’s a bit of an update, as promised, regarding what I myself have been writing. Well, I’ve been writing a lot of things,…
