Anyone else out there try to catch the “Poem of the Day” from Poetry Foundation? I get the email each day, and tend to at least open it but sometimes they slip by. Today’s poem “How Wonderful” by Irving Feldman resonated with me.
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This week in ModPo we are studying the Beats and I called into the webcast earlier this week to add to the noise. In preparing for Meraki Radio this week, I was planning on reading poetry from the Sept and Oct POETRY magazines– in fact, I’ve been dragging these periodicals to the studio for the
I posted originally about Morning Glory here, and am continuing the conversation with a second post including the cover, back cover, and a few other pages for your review. Please enjoy! Interestingly, there are a series of pages repeated in this volume, including the Uncle Horace poem I posted in the first review. I had thought
I found this compilation of poetry titled Morning Glory that was published by the California Lutheran College in 1977. There are authors included with each poem, but none of whom I am familiar. There is no information about who contributed to this book or how the organization was decided, etc. I am not sure what the
Summer (right) came into existence in early June and I posted an early photo of the abstract migrant before he even had a name. Summer got his name sometime on the road when he traveled with me to the East Coast. When I started the study of the color brown in August, Autumn showed up
Source I am house-sitting for fellow reader K8 who is off vacationing in Japan, and as such I have access to Prime Video and discovered Undone last night. It is an animated series and is compelling to watch– the story so far (I watched only a few episodes) is about a woman, Alma, who might
I write this post with a chill in the air. I have no clue how many books I read, but it was fun. Thanks for being here! Join us during Open Arts, where we explore the arts generally until we meet again for our Winter Reading Session. Until soon, A
Barbara gave me this and a handful of other books during our recent visit in State College. This was a perfect fit for my day full of airplanes and airports yesterday. I finished it as we touched down in Sacramento. Delicious. Hope in the Dark was first published shortly after the United States invaded Iraq
At the library we receive all sorts of interesting donations and in the process of summer cleaning, I picked up a set of TIME-LIFE books with the overarching title, Mysteries of the Unknown. I have one on my desk called “Spirit Summonings” and have perused others such as “Witchcraft” and “Phantom Encounters”. These books are a
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure is a novel I picked up from a free little library near my house in Woodland, Calif. Paris is a place that I love, so I thought this might bring me there for a little while– it definitely worked! The story is about an architect, Lucien, who works for
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