On Monday morning, the first day of spring, I stepped out my door and looked up to the clouds that were breaking. I smiled to think how the chill this morning would be warming up as the day went on, according to the weather forecast. Still gazing at the sky, I remember saying, “Good morning,…
Tag: Literature
Poetry Month Then and Now
Last night Rebecca, George, Magda and a small group of library patrons celebrated National Poetry Month by gathering in the reading room at the Osterhout Free Library for Wilkes-Barre’s first Third Friday Art Walk of the season. Patrons stopped in, some to watch and listen between checking out the historic photographs and paintings on the…
William Shakespeare Is Now Following You
So this happened. I checked my email to see the following notification: “William Shakespeare is now following you on Twitter!” Correct me if I am in error, but I think that’s a pretty high-profile follower. Not bad for a poet-blogger who’s been on hiatus for most of National Poetry Month. Eh? If only he didn’t tweet…
You Don’t Even Like Poetry, or Do You?
This Week in Poetry, Even for Non-Poets I am truly tickled to see so much being written about poetry during this (inter)National Poetry Month to an audience outside the traditional poetry scene. Often people who claim to dislike poetry merely had a bad experience, likely in high school, as Billy Collins likes to say “the place…
Two poems by Ivan Jenson
Originally posted on The Blue Hour:
Play it Safe try to avoid situations and people and stay away from anything that smacks of everything and steer clear of here and by all means don’t go there try to keep an arm’s-length away from hand-outs buy-outs or shout-outs and don’t take anything personally that is actually…
Pennsylvania “Working-class Poets” in World Literature Today
I was talking about social media here yesterday, and when I dragged myself from covers to coffee and consciousness late this morning, I was surprised to see how much that post had been shared and tweeted about in the early hours of this Wednesday. To say more would be to engage in the kind of…
David J. Bauman 