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“Overvision” at Poetry Under the Paintings
This last Thursday we enjoyed Poetry Under the Paintings 2 at Faustina’s Gallery in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. We will continue this at least through the summer, so if you are in Central PA with time to spare and a poem in your hand (yours or a favorite), bring a chair and a taste for Ann’s mint…
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There’s Something Wrong with my Whitman Book
There’s something wrong with my Whitman book–it’s too clean. I bought it new because I couldn’t find it used, and the pages are so white and clinical. Leaves of Grass should be on paper growing dark with age, folded and wrinkled through frequent use. It’s hard to read crisp, pristine pages proclaiming the secret of…
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Poems On the Fridge
We talked before about refrigerator poetry, but I just realized that I hadn’t shared any yet from my own kitchen. So here is a quick sample of what my boys, friends and family get up to when they are in my kitchen. Don’t fault them too for to. Articles get lost beneath appliances, or are…
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Natasha Trethewey Named Poet Laureate – News Releases (Library of Congress)
See on Scoop.it – Poetry On the Sidewalk Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today announced the appointment of Natasha Trethewey as the Library’s Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2012-2013. See on www.loc.gov I am sure you have heard this news already, and I cannot even recall on whose blog I first saw this,…
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The “Prodigy”
I am in a hurry to get ready for tonight’s Poetry Under the Paintings, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. And by some slim chance that you reading this actually live near here, I urge you to come along. Bring a chair and if you’re daring, a poem (yours or a favorite) to read to the group. It’ll…
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Graduation and Songs on the Sidewalk
After the graduation ceremony and dinner last night, as we were gathering on the sidewalk waiting for Jon’s buddies to come pick him up. Jonathan’s friend Zane pulled out his ipod and told my son he was going to play something to make him choke up. Within moments “The Cave,” by Mumford and Sons started…
