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National Poetry Month: A Monkey Sonnet or An Ode to Dian Fossey
One of the best poems I think I ever wrote was actually my first sonnet. I wrote it in college for an assignment in a poetry workshop somewhere around 1996 or 1997. I remember the professor butchered...
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National Poetry Month: Tennessee Williams
This month I treated myself to a collection of Tennessee Williams’s poetry. I’ve never read much of his poetry despite him being such a big muse of mine. I haven’t had time to dig into it much, but I...
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National Poetry Month: A Few Last Poems
Well, today is the last day of April. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading the poems I’ve shared this month, both mine and others. Today I leave you with a poem I wrote on March 18th, 1995, called “Little...
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Receipt Poem #1
In 2014, I began a writing project where I would write a poem on the back of a receipt. I never wrote more than six maybe. Like other projects, it was quickly abandoned. But I recently found them and...
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Receipt Poem #2
Here’s a new one from last week that I wrote on the back of my receipt from the open mic at the comedy club. I got to be the host of the show this night.
View ArticlePoems from the 90’s
I’ve been thinking about sharing some more of my poetry, so here’s one from July 5, 1994. I’d been out of high school for about two months. I’ve always been a bird lover, but I can’t remember what...
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A Daybreak Thought for Maria
Here’s a poem by Tennessee Williams that I found in The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams. Tennessee has been a muse of mine for several years now and I bought the book to add to my TW collection,...
View ArticleInsomniac by Sylvia Plath
Sitting on top of my Tennessee Williams’ Collected Poems is a copy of The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath. Sylvia had a trouble life and much of her poetry reflects that. This poem is called Insomniac....
View ArticleA Lesson in Poetry
If you’ve been reading my end-of-month updates, you know I started writing poetry again this year. I started back in January, right after the death of one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver. I’ve always...
View ArticleYour House – A Poem
I’ve mentioned poetry quite a bit in each of my monthly Hello Good-bye posts, but I rarely share any of my poems. So, I’ll try to fix that between now and the end of the year. This is a poem I wrote in...
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