Tag: poet
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Richard Blanco to Read at Obama’s Second Inauguration
Poet Richard Blanco has been selected to read at President Obama’s inauguration on Monday, January 21st, one day after the official swearing in. From the interview on NPR: “My mother … was seven months pregnant with me when she left Cuba, and at that time, in 1968, since there were no diplomatic relations, everybody had…
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William Stafford on the Moon and the Earth, and End of the World
I’ve been meaning to work on this reading for a while now, and it seems appropriate that I happen to be uploading it on one of the many days in our silly history that people were expecting the world to end. Alas, not yet. At the rate we are going, I wonder if mankind will…
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Proud Father Post #497
While I have been told by a certain brother of mine(whom I love, despite his naivete) that my liking “every single post” Monkey Prodigy makes is a threat to his credibility, I must point out that someone’s son has been writing some awesome poetry and doing some excellent writing about writing over on his blog…
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Billy Collins Pick Me Up
The title of this post, it should be noted, does not contain a comma. I am not asking Billy Collins to pick me up, though I imagine a car ride with the master would be fantastic. Maybe he’d compose poems out loud about the broken lines in the middle of the road, like enjambed lines…
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Fare Thee Well, Ross Moyer
Ross, I had barely begun to know you. Almost seven months ago you attended the first Poetry Under the Paintings event in Lewisburg and you have faithfully attended ever since, gracing us each month with your wit, rhyme, sarcasm and that winking smile. You will be missed. The last time you and I talked was…
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Links to My Poems
Dear Dad Poet Lovers, Thank you for the continued requests to read and hear me read more of my own poems. I appreciate the interest, as well as the kind comments you bless me with. I hope to be able to provide you some links soon to some as yet to be (hopefully) published works.…
