Poets on Poetry: Mark Doty, Mackerel & Metaphors
One of the things I love most is writing about writing, unraveling the creative process, how the mind at play …
Tag Archives: poetry
Primary Wonder & A Bell Awakened – Two By Levertov
The whole purpose of life, of this extraordinary experience in being, is to be awake to the wonder and mystery …
Whitman – Where the Sensual & Soulful Merge
Walt Whitman is indeed that poet who sings the body electric, who shows how the sensual and the soulful mirror …
Happy Valentines Day – Celebrating Lasting Love
I’m reprinting a post I wrote two years ago, the first to be Freshly Pressed. Hope you enjoy it. They …
Blogging A Trail of Bread Crumbs – 2014 Recap
Blog posts are like a trail of bread crumbs leading you back through a misty past. They tell you where …
A Cranky Reader: What I Crave When I Read Poetry
I was invited to write a guest blog post about poetry on Luanne Castle’s Writer Site. The following was first …
Happiness Like Holiness
I’ve been ill–nothing serious–but lying in bed day after day, even surrounded by good books, tends toward melancholy. Reading Mary …
“The Mountain of My Love” – Poem by Hayden Carruth
In the graduation speech that went viral last year, George Saunders wrote: “Most people, as they age, become less selfish and more …
Downward into Darkness on Extended Wings
Wallace Stevens’ poem “Sunday Morning” ends with these lines: We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old …
Making Music Wherever We Go – The Rhymes and Rhythms that Move Us
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross To see a fine lady upon a fine horse. Rings on her fingers …
