Tag: poet
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Two poems by Ivan Jenson
Originally posted on The Blue Hour: Play it Safe try to avoid situations and people and stay away from anything that smacks of everything and steer clear of here and by all means don’t go there try to keep an arm’s-length away from hand-outs buy-outs or shout-outs and don’t take anything personally that is actually…
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Yeats, “Two Trees,” and a Piano
In my last post when I talked a bit about live music and local performances I mentioned that on Sunday Brian would be playing piano at the Joseph Priestly Memorial Chapel for their First Sunday program of music and the spoken word. I have some more video editing to do and if the volume is…
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Where Do You Submit Your Poems? What Kind of Poems Do You Like?
Dear Poet Friends, A couple of days off from the restaurant means work time for the poet. I’ve been reading and researching, preparing for my next bout of submission campaigns. I read a lot. I read constantly, but I haven’t been reading enough current poetry and literary journals. Recently I’ve been trying to fix that.…
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Happy Birthday, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Isn’t it funny how we write things like that after someone is long gone? I think Vincent (she liked to be called Vincent) would quip that it’s a tad late now for birthday greetings, don’t you think? Well, it’s a little past midnight now, but that’s not really what I mean. Her birthday is February…
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Friday Flashback, Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden
It’s been a busy week in my part of Penn’s Woods–busy, snowy, icy. And while I’ve had a lot to catch up on I thought it would be a shame to miss the chance at a Friday Flashback on W. H. Auden’s birthday. Auden was a technician, my old mentor would say, a master of…
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1979 Footage of William Stafford in Scranton Resurfaces
Often YouTube is prone to fail for me when I get its automated suggestions of “videos to watch.” Yesterday it suggested some wonderful music tutorial videos from my sweetheart Brian from five years ago, while pushing a recent video of my friend and fellow poet Rachel Bunting’s tribute to Maxine Cumin, recently passed poetry legend,…
