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October 2010

October 21, 2010

O soothest Sleep!

I'm so frustrated with my pregnant self! I have so much I want and need...

October 12, 2010

“I feel grateful / For every pebble…”

A poem for Thankful Tuesday, from the great Milosz... It Was Winter by Czeslaw...

September 2010

September 28, 2010

Be still. Be still.

I know it most likely doesn't feel like Fall where you are. It's hot all...

September 06, 2010

Cello

When I was in grad school, I was honored to study poetry for three years...

August 2010

August 15, 2010

Rainbows + Diapers = Grateful

This morning at 10:30, I began one of those mundane conversations with my two year...

August 08, 2010

New poem! New poem!

There are some poets who will never be kindred spirits and whose poems are usually...

July 2010

July 28, 2010

Because we need a poem about summer rain.

It's not raining here. But perhaps one of you somewhere is reading this in a...

July 23, 2010

A Route of Evanescence

Last Thursday morning, after the Office of Vigils and before Morning Praise at the monastery,...

July 06, 2010

Thankful Tuesday Ramblings

It’s Thankful Tuesday! Sometimes on Thankful Tuesday I list everything I’m grateful for. Sometimes I...

June 2010

June 07, 2010

Staying Power

Yes, fellow poet nerds: I've found a new poem for the month of June. I've...

May 2010

May 28, 2010

Loving “Hyla Brook” for what it is.

I wrote before that I’ve never really studied Robert Frost. But I was drawn to...

April 2010

April 28, 2010

Hello Robert Frost

I've picked "Hyla Brook" as our poem for now through May. I have to admit...

April 20, 2010

Natalie Merchant = Thankful

Since I’m imagining most of you spent your high school and/or college careers in the...

April 15, 2010

Pied Beauty: The Grouch Reflects

I’ve been wanting to share a little about our current Hopkins poem: why I love...

April 03, 2010

Easter Sunday

Descending Theology: The Resurrection From the far star points of his pinned extremities, cold inched...

April 01, 2010

Good Friday

Christ's Passion Sure we're trained to his suffering, sure the nine-inch nails, and so forth....

April 01, 2010

Maundy Thursday

Descending Theology: The Garden We know he was a man because, once doomed, he begged...

March 2010

March 31, 2010

Wednesday, Holy Week

Descending Theology: Christ Human Such a short voyage for a god, and you arrived in...

March 30, 2010

Thankful Tuesday, Holy Week

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week always feel a little unsettling to me. I...

March 15, 2010

Why Hopkins is the man.

I sat awkwardly bent forward in a thick oak chair, bulky in a sweater and...

March 08, 2010

The Mamas Share: Bishop’s Sonnet?

If you’ve been reading, you know that I love Elizabeth Bishop and you know that...

February 2010

February 23, 2010

Thank you, Elizabeth Bishop.

So, I've been memorizing Elizabeth Bishop's Sonnet. And I hope that there's possibly someone out...

February 16, 2010

Poetry, Mamas

It was poetry that won me over to words before I even knew a person...