We all need comfort, especially now with the pandemic raging across the nation. I was reminded of my all-time comfort sources: an open log fire, a line of poetry, and a beautiful overblown pink rose.
A President Who Knows Poetry
Poetry is essential in my view, the only art form complex enough to deal with the contradictions of human nature.
In A Dark Time
How ironic and, yet, how strangely fitting, that this flying virus arrives at the middle of Women’s History month and just before the April 7 publication of The Silver Swan…
Mary Oliver Is Dead
Her gift seems simple and yet it is neither simple nor common but the “confiding intimacy” of her great poems.
Inhabited by Poetry
Beginnings of anything are always inspiring, more than middle or ends, which tend to be tedious.
Teaching The Short Story
My poetry leads me to focus on word choice, the rhythm and sound of language, the flow of sentences—all of which are essential to the success and the intensity of the short story.