Tag: poem
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Mark Strand’s Tunnel, Family Fun and My Injured Hamstring
Aside: Does it bother you that I omitted the Oxford Comma in my title? I guess I’m newly old-fashioned about that. When I was in school that bit of punctuation was no longer popular. It’s come back in fashion in the last decade or so it seems. In some instances it makes sense to use…
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If I Were Someone Else
Tonight I had the pleasure of wishing my amazing friend Ann Keeler Evans a happy birthday. Last night I introduced you to Ann, but if you’ve been around here for a while you’ve probably seen her poetry readings before. She told someone at dinner tonight that she and I started the “Poetry Under the Paintings”…
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David Reads “Making Peace” by Denise Levertov
My friend Ann Keeler Evans is also my minister, or the closest I have to one, and she’s been getting me to think a lot about peace lately. She posts an inspirational poem each day, and unlike me, she posts in the morning, not after midnight! And has been doing so for months! Funny thing…
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Bonus Track, “Man in Space,” Read by Billy Collins
I honestly cannot remember if I have shared this video with you before or not. So forgive me if you’ve already seen it, but I came across this poem again today from Billy Collins’ book The Art of Drowning, and that got me thinking of this video. I enjoy Billy’s reading of this, and the…
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Seduced by Billy Collins
Okay, okay, so I make it sound more exciting than it really is, but I’m referring to a phrase from the wonderful video at the bottom of this post. It’s a lengthy and in-depth, but fun and slightly off-beat interview of Billy Collins by Ginger Murchison of The Cortland Review. This was all captured at the…
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Return of the Dogwoods, Featuring Tony Hoagland
So it was a long day. Meeting the oldest two sons on campus, and hearing that Jo had no difficulty changing his major. He has a 4.0 in all the psychology classes he’s taken so far anyway. Went to the financial aid office with the middle son to sort some more complicated things out. Then…
