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Love Poems You Wish You Had Written #4: with Walt Whitman
That’s right, Walt Whitman. He may not be as well-known for his love poems as others, and his critics might say he was too busy loving himself, but to that I counter that he loved himself no less than others, and no more. I just started going back to studying the “Calamus” section of Leaves…
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Love Poems You Wish You Had Written #3: Readings by Ygor Raduy
For today’s edition of Love Poems You Wish You Had Written we have as a guest reader, Ygor Raduy who will be reading selections from both E. E. Cummings and Rainer Maria Rilke. Some days I simply cannot help but be grateful that our god in her infinite wisdom inspired Al Gore to create the…
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Poetry Cloud: Do You Wordle?
Back in November I did a little post about Wordling, and I even created a word cloud of the President’s acceptance speech. It was fun! Now maybe it’s just me, but other than the Sunday Whirl I don’t see a lot of word clouds out there lately, and I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s because…
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No Ideas But in Things: Poetry as Exploration
I had the pleasure of reading at the Priestly Chapel here in town again this Sunday. This is the second time they have kindly invited me to be the featured poet for their Second Sunday Service of Music and the Spoken Word. The musical portion of the program featured The Bloomsburg Early Music Consortium, and…
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Love Poems You Wish You Had Written #2: The Highwayman
I had the immense pleasure Sunday morning of reading a second time at the Priestly Chapel here in the tiny town of Northumberland, Pennsylvania. But I will tell you about that experience in my next post. For now, I want to skip ahead to talk about the next Poetry Under the Paintings event at Faustina’s Gallery…
