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Reginald Shepherd, “How People Disappear”
By special request of Rachel Bunting, Day 27 on Day 29 If you didn’t hear about the work Rachel Bunting has been doing for the Bullycide Project this month, you should check it out. She’s doing a much more important Poetry Month Project than I am. Here I have been just playing in the poetry…
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David Reads “An April Funeral in Pennsylvania,” by Jerry Wemple
Another Annoying Aside: Imagine my dismay when I found that tinkering with the dates of posts on WordPress invariably messes up outside links to them! I did not realize that some of those urls actually contained the publishing date (This one already appears not to. Yeah, I’m confused too.)! Ah well, fortunately the links do…
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Mark Strand’s Tunnel, Family Fun and My Injured Hamstring
Aside: Does it bother you that I omitted the Oxford Comma in my title? I guess I’m newly old-fashioned about that. When I was in school that bit of punctuation was no longer popular. It’s come back in fashion in the last decade or so it seems. In some instances it makes sense to use…
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If I Were Someone Else
Tonight I had the pleasure of wishing my amazing friend Ann Keeler Evans a happy birthday. Last night I introduced you to Ann, but if you’ve been around here for a while you’ve probably seen her poetry readings before. She told someone at dinner tonight that she and I started the “Poetry Under the Paintings”…
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David Reads “Making Peace” by Denise Levertov
My friend Ann Keeler Evans is also my minister, or the closest I have to one, and she’s been getting me to think a lot about peace lately. She posts an inspirational poem each day, and unlike me, she posts in the morning, not after midnight! And has been doing so for months! Funny thing…
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Bonus Track, “Man in Space,” Read by Billy Collins
I honestly cannot remember if I have shared this video with you before or not. So forgive me if you’ve already seen it, but I came across this poem again today from Billy Collins’ book The Art of Drowning, and that got me thinking of this video. I enjoy Billy’s reading of this, and the…
