Sea Gull Perch flickr picture by fran.trudeau shared underneath a Artistic Commons (BY-SA) license My spouse and I, and a pal, spent the primary day of the lengthy weekend at Crane Seashore in japanese Massachusetts. It was a stunning day of principally sunshine, and the seaside is gorgeous — lengthy, white sand, and stuffed with…
A immediate within the newest Write Out publication was all about nature and the way concepts can leap from language to language. By probability, I noticed a every day poem from Poets.org entitled “The River” by Manuel Jose Othon and after I learn it, I noticed the poem had been translated into English from its…
(Observe: it is a shadow silhouette simply down the road from the Emily Dickinson Museum. Subsequent to it’s one other shadow silhouette, of Robert Frost, who additionally lived in Amherst for elements of his life, as a professor. They might not have recognized one another, because of years lived, however Frost little doubt knew of…
A current assortment of poems, edited and curated by Ada Limon, impressed me to jot down a few of my very own poems, borrowing strains to construct off. The unique strains all come from poems in You Are Right here: Poetry In The Pure World (edited by Ada Limon) The sky is a century with…
The Nationwide Writing Mission’s Write Throughout America venture stopped in South Dakota this week, and I’ve been slowly wanting over the prompts and sources. What caught my eye was the Sculpture Stroll in Sioux Falls, a set of fascinating artworks. I’ve used a number of for my morning poems over the previous couple of days….
All month, I’ve been writing and sharing a sequence of poems impressed by historic doc “pins” (data posters positioned at varied factors alongside the way in which) which were positioned to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Mill River Flood right here the place I stay in Western Massachusetts. My preliminary plan…