Poetry – Milneville

The Subject and the Words

“I don’t know why we do it. We must be crazy.Welcome, fellow poet.” ―Richard Hugo A post on lithub.com reminded me that one professor from my undergrad days had put The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo on the reading list. I don’t have the book on a shelfContinue reading “The Subject and the Words”

In Love with Neruda

Some books allow me to time travel back to when I first read them. Such is the case with the ‘100 Love Sonnets’ of Pablo Neruda.

Memoirist

I saw on January 16 that it was the birthday of Mary Karr who was listed as a “poet and memoirist.” I thought that seemed funny because I consider most poets to be memoirists, but I know they are two different genres of writing. I took a memoir-writing workshop the year after Karr’s “memoir aboutContinue reading “Memoirist”

Shoveling Snow

After shoveling snow, I have hot cocoa and write a poem.

Poetry Unbound

I pre-ordered the collection Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World that was put together by Pádraig Ó. Tuama. I know these poems and I know him because he is the “presenter” of the podcast Poetry Unbound with On Being Studios. Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet and theologian. There are 50 poems withContinue reading “Poetry Unbound”

Poetry in 140 Characters or 15 Seconds

National Poetry Month isn’t the reason I write in April but it might be a reason to write more poetry. National Public Radio may have given me or you another reason to write.

Without Seeing It Happen

A saw that a friend posted a poem, “Footholds,” by W.S. Merwin. Merwin is a poet I really like and need to read more of him. That poem begins: Where I dug the logs into the riseto make the steps along the valleyI forget how many years agotheir wood has dissolved completely nowdisappearing into theContinue reading “Without Seeing It Happen”