Tag: William Stafford
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DJB reads Sweet Talk, and Billy Collins Reads at the White House
I highlighted my William Stafford playlist the other day, and today I’d like to feature another playlist of mine, a group of poems by one of my favorite living American poets, Billy Collins. Click here for the playlist. There are some great readings of his poems online, including some fun animations, one of which I…
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Little Rooms, by William Stafford
I was a young man away in the great flat state of Indiana, missing my home in the forested Pennsylvania hills and ridges, feeling alone without my new wife those first three months beginning my seminary studies, when I first encountered the poetry of that wise old sage William Stafford. Yes, I did say seminary…
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“Atavism,” a Poem by William Stafford, read by DJB
I don’t know why this didn’t work the first time. I can only say that the Droid has its issues, or the app for WordPress has its issues, probably both. In either case, I have tried multiple times to do postings from my phone, and it just never works right. So here it is again.…
