Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spending my stash in the Big Apple
Last weekend I went on a spending spree in New York City. Unfortunately for the economy, it was a poem-elfing kind of spending spree. I hoard poems for future occasions the way some people keep money in special accounts for emergencies. I decided to “spend” my poems in our most literary of cities. Here’s […]
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Continuing with my previous post, here’s three more poems I left behind on a recent trip to the Porcupine Mountains in Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula. Louise Gluck’s riveting “Gretel in Darkness” is a favorite poem of mine and I couldn’t resist putting it in these enchanted woods. Gluck imagines Gretel years after she has pushed […]
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