Tag: poet
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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…
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David Reads “Shark’s Teeth,” by Kay Ryan
I wasn’t planning on doing video today, but I went out to film the dogwood trees in my neighborhood, getting prepared for Earth Day’s reading of a Hoagland piece tomorrow, and then former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan caught my eye. There she was in the King Street park, fin up, tail a-swish, passing by…
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David Reads “Any Case” for Day 20, by Wislawa Szymborska
Well the recording for day 20 did make it up onto SoundCloud, but my apologies for the lateness of it’s posting here on The Dad Poet. Frankly, I needed some sleep. And today is such a lovely day in Penn’s Woods, and so much to be done, and at last some motivation, despite the chilliness…
