Tag: poem

• Father: a Poem

  This poem was originally written for my dad’s birthday in 2012. It was put to video and given to him as a modern “hand-made” gift. It went through a lot of reworking, editing, and polishing. Then the good folks at San Pedro River Review & Blue Horse Press published it in their Spring 2016 issue: The American…

  David J. Bauman

  June 17, 2018

• Adios, Poetry Month! with Naomi Shihab Nye

  I am going to sign off from this year’s National Poetry Month in an uncharacteristic fashion. No commentary, no hoopla. Just a bonus poem by one of the most beautiful poets alive today, Naomi Shihab Nye. Adios by Naomi Shihab Nye It is a good word, rolling off the tongue; no matter what language you were…

  David J. Bauman

  April 30, 2018

• National Poetry Month, Week Three, Bonus Track

  It was a break from all these snow flurries and colder temperatures the other day, so I decided to take the laptop outside and record a favorite poem. I was going to save this for week four, but sometimes good things just can’t wait. This year and last, my son Micah and I have been…

  David J. Bauman

  April 20, 2018

• 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…

  David J. Bauman

  April 10, 2018

• “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…

  David J. Bauman

  March 4, 2018

• 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

  David J. Bauman

  September 27, 2017