Tag: poem
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Day #2 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: “9” by E. E. Cummings
I tip my hat to those of you who are writing a poem a day, especially to those of you who were doing this long before National Poetry Month! I bow. While getting my blog and YouTube channeloff the ground again, it seemed like a worthy project to commit myself to doing one reading per…
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30 Days, 30 Readings, Day #1 NaPoMo, William Stafford’s “When I Met My Muse”
So what are you doing to celebrate National Poetry Month? Some poets like K. McGee are writing a poem a day. Others like Rachel Bunting are busy with school and work and parenting and just hoping to participate and encourage others to celebrate. Please check out her blog for some great ideas about where to…
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DJB reads Sweet Talk, and Billy Collins Reads at the White House
I highlighted my William Stafford playlist the other day, and today I’d like to feature another playlist of mine, a group of poems by one of my favorite living American poets, Billy Collins. Click here for the playlist. There are some great readings of his poems online, including some fun animations, one of which I…
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Vulture Footage Abandoned for Flying Boy Film
Micah did some editing recently on footage from an outing he and I had last summer. We were out looking for turkey vultures to film for an upcoming poetry reading, which should not have been difficult; TV’s are everywhere here in central Pennsylvania. Heck I’ve even seen a few black vultures the last couple of…
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Little Rooms, by William Stafford
I was a young man away in the great flat state of Indiana, missing my home in the forested Pennsylvania hills and ridges, feeling alone without my new wife those first three months beginning my seminary studies, when I first encountered the poetry of that wise old sage William Stafford. Yes, I did say seminary…
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Poetry That Kicks Ass
You don’t hear people talking like that about poetry, do you? “Did you see the Eagles game last night? Man, they kicked ass!” Poetry that kicks ass. Yeah, seems I only ever hear poets talk that way. There was a great article on the Onion last September. It’s funny, but also sadly illustrative of the state…
