Category: poetry
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Re: Draft of the Week, #11.
I’ve read various poems by both Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, and I have a copy of Lowell’s Complete Prose that, although I haven’t finished it, I’ve read a fair amount of. (I got it for $1 in 2008, what a steal!) But somehow I never realized what true friends they were to each other…
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Happy New Year!
Last New Years I spent in the hospital with newborn Aidan watching a “Project Runway” marathon. In other words, an awesome start. (I haven’t seen any real programs to speak of since. And I happen to like hospital food!) As kids grow they get ever so much more complicated and harder to please and make…
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The Storm that Wasn’t.
Out here in the western part of the state we didn’t get so much as a stray snowflake from the so-called blizzard. We already have a foot of snow on the ground, so I’m not exactly complaining, but it was a surprise to wake up to nothing when I was expecting at least a foot…
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My Winter List.
I’m working on a rather ambitiously tall stack of books from my reading list, and picked up two novels, Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin and Annie Dillard’s The Maytrees, from the library. Which I haven’t even opened yet because of the magnificent richness of poetry books I’m reading: I won a free copy…
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Draft of the Week, #10.
Did you know there’s going to be a partial lunar eclipse on December 31, 2009? I was already working on this poem yesterday when I read this — there are amazing websites that list all the upcoming celestial happenings, and run graphics that show you what the sky/moon/sun will look like during the event. Because…
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Stripped-down Christmas.
In a confluence of my more austere tendencies and financial necessity, we are celebrating a present-free Christmas this year. You heard me: present-free. Fortunately the boys are both young enough that we can do this without their feeling deprived — they don’t yet associate Christmas with loot. Par example: It snowed this past weekend, and…
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Draft of the Week, #9.
My first draft of November, and the month’s three-quarters gone — oy. I’m accustomed to shoe-horning in a fair amount of me-time rather late at night, after everyone has gone to bed, but lately it’s just not happening. But after days of a line here, a deleted stanza there, I think this morning’s work has…
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Yet More Reasons Why I Love the Internet.
Because I’m constantly discovering new poet crushes, these poets who write such exquisite lines, whose poems I absolutely covet. This week’s discovery: Carolina Ebeid. You can find some of her poems online Here at Memorious. “Pale / glyph of dog” — seriously, I felt my heart twinge. Here at Agni Online. “The work of grief…
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2 Days/2 Wildly Different Audiences.
Talking to a rugful of first-graders is a scary business. Keeping their interest, watching for signs of restlessness and disinterest, and then immediately switching course to lure back their attention…I think we chatted 25 minutes all told, but I was exhausted! The teachers were endlessly patient and encouraging — the kids’ poems are hung all…
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Do You Realize There Are Only 7 Weeks Left to the Year?
Egads, where has the time went?! There’s micro-time, this week, wherein: I drove to North Adams for a meeting, have my reading tonight with Kim Rogers at the Green Street Café (which I am so excited about; that and the dinner provided — Green St. has an excellent menu!), and tomorrow afternoon I’m visiting, in…
Marie Gauthier 