Tag: poet
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Poetry Readings and Kitty Cat Heaven
This morning I had the pleasure of reading some of my poems at the Joseph Priestley Memorial Chapel in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. The first Sunday of each month the local Unitarian Universalist church holds a service of music and the spoken word, and I was honored to be asked to participate, as well as to read…
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Ends and Odds – Chocolate Verbs, Garden Poems and Happy Numbers
Here is something I don’t often do, but since I’ve been doing some planting and cleaning and lots of reading of my fellow bloggers, I thought I’d give you something that resembles my brain right now; a hodge podge post. Here we go! My plants are looking really cool, but since I have weeding to do,…
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There’s Something Wrong with my Whitman Book
There’s something wrong with my Whitman book–it’s too clean. I bought it new because I couldn’t find it used, and the pages are so white and clinical. Leaves of Grass should be on paper growing dark with age, folded and wrinkled through frequent use. It’s hard to read crisp, pristine pages proclaiming the secret of…
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The “Prodigy”
I am in a hurry to get ready for tonight’s Poetry Under the Paintings, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. And by some slim chance that you reading this actually live near here, I urge you to come along. Bring a chair and if you’re daring, a poem (yours or a favorite) to read to the group. It’ll…
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Whitman’s Birthday Weekend, and Shopping with Ginsberg
Well, Mr. Whitman’s birthday was on Thursday the 31st, and I had vowed to continue celebrating throughout the weekend. My birthday post for my Daddy/Uncle didn’t make it online until a little after midnight in the wee hours of Friday morning, and you can check that out here. I was thinking of bringing you another…
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Lord Byron meets The King Blues
I suppose this wasn’t shown on BBC America, because somehow I missed this back in 2009. Apparently there was a show called Poetry Season. I wasn’t familiar with The King Blues either until seeing this poem online today, after which I started looking up their songs. And the reason I bring this to you tonight,…
