Category Archives: poetry and prose

Poem on my mind… “Midsummer, Georgia Avenue” by Mary Jo Salter, as read on today’s The Writer’s Almanac. It taps directly into my love of reading and my growing desire for a front porch. (And I’ll gladly take the one … Continue reading →

This morning, to make my drive to work bearable, I listened to a marathon session of The Writer’s Almanac. Of the seven poems I heard read by Garrison Keillor, in his usual soothing way, “Hands” by Jack Ridl caught my … Continue reading →

The following scene is 99.7% pure fiction. The rest is punctuation. It was a dark, wet January morning. I was sitting at a booth in an empty diner in a small, unremarkable town somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, engrossed by … Continue reading →

Last Tuesday, on the Writer’s Almanac, I heard a poem written by Roseann Lloyd called “What To Do the First Morning the Sun Comes Back”. I share it here so I won’t lose it… What To Do the First Morning … Continue reading →

Poem on my mind… “The Patience of Ordinary Things” by Pat Schneider, as heard on The Writer’s Almanac. The Patience of Ordinary Things It is a kind of love, is it not?How the cup holds the tea,How the chair stands … Continue reading →

Poem on my mind… “Trees” by W.S. Merwin, as heard on The Writer’s Almanac. Trees (excerpt) I am looking at trees they may be one of the things I will miss most from the earth though many of the ones … Continue reading →

According NPR’s The Bryant Park Project, today is Poem in Your Pocket Day. It’s one of the many events happening during National Poetry Month. The idea is to select a poem you love, carry it with you (preferably, in your … Continue reading →

Poem on my mind… “I’m Scared of It All” by Robert W. Service. The poem introduces Sam Keith and Richard Proenneke’s One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey. Below are my two favorite verses… I want to go back to my … Continue reading →