I’m going to give my friend Raul Clement a bit of a plug for his excellent work at New American Press just because they put out damn good writing. Check them out, and send them some of your best work (after thoroughly reading their guidelines, of course). I met Raul maybe two years back when…
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NaPoMo, Week Three: Bird Poems by Edward Thomas
And a Certain Famous Poem by Robert Frost Already I’ve met the goal of reading poems by four poets I have never before recorded. But since I got excitable and couldn’t wait for week four, I counted that last one as a bonus. So, now, officially for week four, I have two poems about my…
Poetry Month: Week Two, with Natalie Barney
Micah, my youngest son, and I are once again this year recording poems for National Poetry Month. In an effort to read and record poets that are new to us, or at least whose work we have not yet read out loud, we are both picking a different poem each week of April and sharing…
“Walking with Your Eyes Shut,” by William Stafford
This week the wonderful poet Nickole Brown was asking folks on social media for short, creative nonfiction pieces about sound for a class she is teaching on defamiliarization. I admit, I missed the acronym, CNF and was, as usual, thinking of poetry. My mind went straight to a poem by William Stafford and my hands immediately reached…
Requests for Toy Piano by Tony Hoagland
Originally posted on The Monkey Prodigy:
https://soundcloud.com/monkeyprodigy/tony-hoagland Read this poem by clicking here. There are several good readings like the one below. A few of them are from the Poetry Out Loud competition which introduced me to this poem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vBnnV6FRw
Happy Birthday to Mary Oliver
Oh, yeah, and to me! There’s a poet whose loss I was planning to write about, but then I remembered that I share a birthday with Mary Oliver today. And so instead of thinking about aging and death, I decided that first, it would be a good idea to spend a little time in the…
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