16 May 2024 (a conversation)

a conversation about poetry catbird

27 August 2023 (rising wind)

rising wind —

our long conversation

about short poems

20 January 2023 (snowing)

it was snowing

and it was going to snow

cardinal in the cedar

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An homage to Wallace Stevens’s classic “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” The italicized lines are from the final stanza of his poem.

24 May 2022 (poems)

all the poems I ever heard singing catbird

12 September 2020 (Wild Graces)

Yesterday’s post is a day late, because I was attending the (outdoor) haiku gathering at Wild Graces in NH.

linked dragonflies

fly among haiku poets

shifting clouds

17 April 2020 - International Haiku Poetry Day

Today is International Haiku Poetry Day!

If you’re interested in learning how to write haiku, I’ve created a worksheet for the day in lieu of the in-person workshop and ginko that I was going to do at my local library. Find that HERE! Hope you find you enjoy writing haiku as much as I do…

5 April 2020 (editing)

Thank you to those of you who responded to yesterday’s query re which version worked best. 5 of you said you preferred version 1 (“social distance”), 7 of you preferred version 2 (“these days…”), and 1 voted for both. I appreciate your thoughtful replies! I’m leaning toward version 2 myself. But that might change 6 months from now. Editing is an ongoing process.

brightening sky

the perfect last line

arrives

January 15: Office visit

what is poetry

examining my warts

my doctor makes me laugh

May 18: Black flies

black fly season

forced to write haiku

indoors

February 3: Moonrise

Inspired reflection:

watching the moon rise

at the poetry reading.

February 1: Reading poetry on a winter's night

Last night in my Maine Poetry class, we read aloud Longfellow's "Wreck of the Hesperus," each of us in turn reading a stanza—an under-appreciated, long-lost form of entertainment.

Full moon on snow.
Reading Longfellow aloud
like they used to.