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Sep 5, 2023
Sep 5, 2023
24 min
Today's two poems--brought to us by Keith Hansen--take us to the beauty salon and the barber chair. Are these places ordinary or sacred? Maybe we don't have to choose.
"Wayne's College of Beauty, Santa Cruz" by David Swanger
"Hair" by BH Fairchild
Aug 25, 2023
Aug 25, 2023
21 min
Why is late summer such a gut-puncher? If anyone can get at the heart of this mystery, it's these two:
"Summer Has Two Beginnings" by Emily Dickinson
"Three Songs at the End of Summer" by Jane Kenyon
Aug 18, 2023
Aug 18, 2023
25 min
Late summer is peak bye-bye season! These three poems fit perfectly in your suitcase or moving box.
"The Summer Camp Bus Pulls Away From the Curb" by Sharon Olds
"Leaving Town" by Jane Kenyon
[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by ee cummings
Aug 14, 2023
Aug 14, 2023
11 min
Listen to what can happen when a poet keeps a sustained gaze on the desolate place that has always been his home.
Keith Hansen comes back to the mic to read six poems by Don Thompson.
"Flat Earth"
"Water"
"Egret I"
"Buena Vista Slough II"
"October"
"December"
Aug 9, 2023
Aug 9, 2023
16 min
Part 3 of the summer poems series is JUICY!
"Blackberry-Picking" by Seamus Heaney
"An Invitation" by Clemens Starck
"Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass
Aug 4, 2023
Aug 4, 2023
17 min
Here's part 2 of the "summer poems" series! This one's for you, Farmer Ben.
"Putting in the Seed" by Robert Frost
"Cutting the Grass" by Clemens Starck
"In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden" by Matthea Harvey
Aug 1, 2023
Aug 1, 2023
27 min
It's AUGUST!
I had a request for some summer poems and got a little carried away. I hope you like sunshine, blackberries, nostalgia, and love, because this is just the beginning of a 4 part summer poem series.
We kick off with
"Summer Moods" by John Clare
"The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver
"Mossbawn: Sunlight" by Seamus Heaney
"Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" by James Wright
Jun 5, 2023
Jun 5, 2023
25 min
3 school poems to kick off summer break!
"Night" by Jill Osier
"M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School" by Philip Levine
"Mrs. Smith 1959" by Kim Stafford
Mar 20, 2023
Mar 20, 2023
17 min
A snowy night, phone calls from beyond the grave... this poem has a lot to recommend it.
"Visitors From Abroad" by Louise GlÜck
Mar 17, 2023
Mar 17, 2023
14 min
Let me read to you-- a handful of poems that take us through the year of a gardener/prose poet who is paying attention.
The book I read from is Going to Seed: Dispatches From the Garden by Charles Goodrich