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May 2013

May 07, 2013

Only 10 days late…the winner of Sarah Dunning Park’s book of poems

And, using the Random Number Generator, our winner of Sarah's book What it is is...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Daughters of Jerusalem (A Good Friday poem)

A few weeks ago I asked for help in thinking about Luke 23:27-31 as I...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Advent Poetry Series: “Christ’s Mother Reflects: His Childhood”

Christ's Mother Reflects: His Childhood “...and for him to see me mended / I must...

December 14, 2012

Advent Poetry Series “Darkness”

Darkness For Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the...

December 07, 2012

Advent Poetry Series “The Lord is With Thee”

The Lord is With Thee from the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 1 They hail me...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Advent Poetry Series “Star”

Though I've shared my own poems on the blog before, I always find it intimidating...

November 21, 2012

Thanksgiving in their words…

This is a repost from last Thanksgiving. But how can I not post it again?...

October 2012

October 26, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Linda Hogan

Last night I had a phone conversation with a friend from Austin: a sophomore in...

September 2012

September 14, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Mark Strand

This is how it happens: You grieve the news that you will leave your home....

July 2012

July 13, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Tony Hoagland

I know I keep giving you poems from poets I don't know enough about to...

July 06, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: WS Merwin (again) and Death

I'm now in Amarillo, my hometown. We got here on the 4th and it will...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Jean Valentine

I discovered this little gem in a pile of photo-copied poems I’d left behind in...

June 22, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Natasha Trethewey

I've never read Nathasha Trethaway's work. But, because she is the recently named US...

June 15, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Franz Wright

Today is a special day for my little family. Our T-Rexy (aka Brooksie)...

June 08, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Louise Gluck (Also, Micha’s yellow folder)

When I arrived at my creative writing program in 2002 (which my friend Courtney...

June 01, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Farah Marklevits

Farah Marklevits is a friend of mine from Syracuse. I spent three years of graduate...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Jane Kenyon (again)

Last night, after the kids snuggled into beds and the cat (who is getting better!)...

May 18, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Emily Dickinson

May 15 was the anniversary of Emily Dickinson's death, 126 years ago. I have this...

May 11, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: W.S. Merwin

This week I started Lauren F. Winner’s Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis. I love...

April 2012

April 27, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Luci Shaw

I had the honor of hearing Luci Shaw and Jeanne Murray Walker discuss "Ambition" together...

April 20, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Marie Howe

This week, I listened to a rebroadcast of Terry Gross' Fresh Air interview with poet Marie Howe...

April 13, 2012

A Very Thankful Poem-a-Day Friday

I've missed our Thankful Tuesdays, friends! So much so that my mind has been filling...

April 06, 2012

Good Friday: Christ’s cross over this throat

From the 8th century Irish monastic poet, Blathma ...The sun concealed its proper light; it...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Robert Lowell, again

Yes, I'm still reading Robert Lowell. But I promise a new poet next time. (Next...

March 23, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Robert Lowell

I have this very heavy, beautiful, hard covered block of pages, also known as Robert...

March 09, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Friends, I can't talk long about poetry without begging you to love my bestest favorite...

March 02, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Sarah C. Harwell

I haven't been reading my poem-a-day this week. But I've been thinking about a poem...

February 2012

February 24, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Thomas Heise

Several years ago, Chris bought me a couple of books of poetry for Christmas. They...

February 17, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Rainer Marie Rilke

(My New Year's resolution was to read one poem a day. Every Friday, I share...

February 10, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens is another poet whom I really ought to know better. But, ain't...