Poetry
Sunday Poetry: The Uncooked Vanilla Pudding of Life
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. Hold on to your hat today. Or don’t, because if you do, you might lose your edge, and The Edge is where I want to be, by Lisa Martinovic, is our Sunday poem.…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: New Dreams Every Night
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. I’ve spent the weekend celebrating a “big” birthday for my husband. All our sons and their families arrived to spend it with us here in NY, and it’s been wonderful. Since birthdays are…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: A Penny Cheaper
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. I’m spending the summer at Chautauqua Institution, which sponsors morning lectures each week on a different theme. This week’s theme was Water and we were fortunate to have the talented resources of National…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: Like Pointed Shoes Too Cheap for Elves to Wear
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. More poetry today about the charms of summer. John Updike’s Chicory certainly brought back a wonderful memory. Years ago my first summer in Virginia followed a spring of new and spectacular beauty for me.…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: Golden-Buttercup-Wild
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. Wow, it’s been hot, right? Maybe not for all of you, but many of you have been suffering under the heaviest hand summer has employed in memory. While our weather here in Western NY…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: A Special Giveaway
Welcome back to Sunday Poetry, after my short hiatus. Those of you who’ve been following along this past year know this blog began after I heard poet Billy Collins speak at Chautauqua Institution several years ago. I was so impressed that I checked out the Library of Congress site he began, Poetry 180, which was…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: A World Made By Displacement
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. I’m in the midst of moving, but I couldn’t let this occasion go unmarked. Natasha Trethewey was just named the 19th U.S. poet laureate by the Library of Congress, and I wanted to…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: On Hiatus
Sunday Poetry will return once our move is completed in a few weeks. Meantime, let us know if you find a poem with particular meaning to you.
Read MoreSunday Poetry: Honoring Soldiers at Arlington
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. Today’s poem, Memorial Day, by Dennis Caraher needs no explanation or introduction. Read it several times. Not only does the poem deserve that, it changes each time I read it and I feel…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: The Iron Solos and the Sirens
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. We’ll be moving mid-June. First to our little cottage at Chautauqua Institution for the summer, then to. . . somewhere. The house hunting hasn’t gone well, but we’re strangely upbeat. Our material life…
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