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A Witch Reads with a Prince, and Billy Collins Visits King’s
Not much time for updates this afternoon, as the news that one of my heroes, and favorite living poets, Billy Collins will be reading tonight at King’s College in nearby Wilkes-Barre, PA. I need to get ready to go and get on the road. I’ll be meeting up with Ann and Jody to carpool. So…
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Capitol Readings, the Midtown Scholar and Catching Up
Here it is Sunday already and I have not told you anything about the much promoted readings at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Well, it was an active Thursday, that’s for sure. And the week before that was very active as well, with music gigs, and poetry on the streets, and all the preparations into…
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Guerrilla Poetry for International Day of the Girl–Taking it to the Streets
I saw a post the other night on Susan Daniels Poetry blog about the opposition to the practice of creating child brides. I sent the link on to my good friend Ann Keeler Evans because I knew she could respond better than I could. She promptly wrote two poetic responses, and last night while her…
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Poetry at the Pennsylvania Capitol
You won’t hear much from me here on the Dad Poet until after Thursday. There is just too much to do between now and then. Five poets will be converging on the Pennsylvania state capitol, and I am honored to be one of the five. The news I alluded to earlier this week is that…
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Silly Star Poem at PUP for my Son the Monkey
You might have noticed that the Monkey Prodigy has been doing more and more videos lately, including some pretty fun poems. So I tried to read this one in his style. So often when the family is enjoying a day together Micah finds a pen and paper to write down some of the crazy things…
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Unhappy Wedding, PUP and Personality
Warning, this may be one of those “Ends and Odds” posts of mine which are all over the map. Sort of just taking a fatherly, intellectual, spiritual, poetic dump. Um, yeah. I would bet that somewhere there is a blogging tutorial which instructs writers to never begin a post with a warning and apology, and…
