I was stepping out the door into a thunderstorm with a shoebox of poems when my husband asked where I was going. “An errand for my blog,” I said. He looked at the weather and looked at the poems bundled in a protective garbage bag and said, “Sometimes I think you’re a […]
MoreThis morning I was taking a break from news of the Boston Marathon manhunt and was thumbing through the strangest bathroom book I own (because the bathroom is an excellent place to get away from the radio), and I happened to open to this page. It was as if poet Kenneth Patchen’s book was […]
MoreNational Poem in Your Pocket Day is a good day to be a poem elf. So many pockets to fill, so many poems to share. Last year I set up my very first take-a-poem box at the post office. I saved the box to use again, but when I pulled it out of […]
MoreThis Morning by Javier Galvez This morning The sun broke my window and came in laughing Along the same path: Gift by Czeslaw Milosz A day so happy. Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth […]
MoreYeah, yeah, yeah, it’s the first day of National Poetry Month, a celebration most people observe by deleting Poem-a-Day emails. Today is also the most important secular holiday of the year: April Fool’s Day. And I am Marie of Romania, as Dorothy Parker would say. Actually I’m as serious as a person […]
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