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Seduced by Billy Collins
Okay, okay, so I make it sound more exciting than it really is, but I’m referring to a phrase from the wonderful video at the bottom of this post. It’s a lengthy and in-depth, but fun and slightly off-beat interview of Billy Collins by Ginger Murchison of The Cortland Review. This was all captured at the…
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Return of the Dogwoods, Featuring Tony Hoagland
So it was a long day. Meeting the oldest two sons on campus, and hearing that Jo had no difficulty changing his major. He has a 4.0 in all the psychology classes he’s taken so far anyway. Went to the financial aid office with the middle son to sort some more complicated things out. Then…
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David Reads “Shark’s Teeth,” by Kay Ryan
I wasn’t planning on doing video today, but I went out to film the dogwood trees in my neighborhood, getting prepared for Earth Day’s reading of a Hoagland piece tomorrow, and then former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan caught my eye. There she was in the King Street park, fin up, tail a-swish, passing by…
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David Reads “Any Case” for Day 20, by Wislawa Szymborska
Well the recording for day 20 did make it up onto SoundCloud, but my apologies for the lateness of it’s posting here on The Dad Poet. Frankly, I needed some sleep. And today is such a lovely day in Penn’s Woods, and so much to be done, and at last some motivation, despite the chilliness…
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Me on the Radio, and I Needed a Love Song
I had almost forgotten to post about this; I’ll be on the radio tomorrow night, and I have a link for you to listen in. But it’s also day 19 of Poetry Month, and I need to post a recording for it. For an hour after work tonight, I just dully surfed the net, while this…
