Welcome to our first week of the Poetry Celebration! I’m teaming up with the wonderful journal-makers at Jumping Fox Design to celebrate poetry, writing, and community this April as part of National Poetry Month. In today's video, you'll hear a "composite" poem by a delightful young poet; you'll "meet" our brilliant and super-cool US Poet [...]
Hello, my friends! Here's the official invitation to join in April's Poetry Celebration that I'm co-hosting with Jumping Fox Design, maker of truly gorgeous journals. We would love to welcome you to the community of poets this month to write and share poems, to read and listen to poetry by contemporary poets, and to [...]
Hello, dear friends! I am so excited to tell you about a Poetry project I’m doing in April to celebrate National Poetry Month - and the best part is that YOU can be part of it, too. OK, the other best part is that there is a delicious giveaway involved: for two lucky participants, a [...]
Just a bit of encouragement: every so often, go through the stacks, the piles, the shoals of unfinished work. For me, that is always bits of paper with poems scribbled on them and then put into rough cairns to be re-found, often months later. What is somewhat funny to me is that the reason I [...]
In which I read a beautiful Midsummer poem by Irish poet, Padraic Colum. Ah, Summer and Enchantment! From a few years back. Rediscovered today as I am working on creating a multi-media presentation for "Songs of the Poets." Will share news of that soon!
This is a story of how life conspires with us to fulfill our dearest dreams - especially when we are willing to follow good feeling and trust our hearts. For years, I dreamed of visiting the Lake District in the north of England - home of English-language Romantic poetry and a hotbed of artistic creativity [...]
Friends, we are the artists in the world at this time. Let that sink in. We are, to quote Arthur Shaughnessy, the "music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." If you're making songs, poems, paintings, dances, or anything else that was born first in your imagination and heart and then brought forth [...]
I love April because although we can celebrate and enjoy poetry all year, we dedicate EXTRA love and attention to poetry this month. And that makes me happy! As always, I'm celebrating by writing a poem each day. This year, for the first time ever, I'm nine for nine - meaning, that I haven't yet [...]
I bought a dozen pearl arrowhead erasers - an affordable luxury at .19 a pop. So of course I had to sharpen some pencils to go with them! (Poems come from such small things, don't they? From pencils and and erasers and pencil sharpeners, from those who lived in our homes before us, from awkwardness, [...]
After a recent performance of poetry and song, a man approached me and told me that he wanted to learn my "method" so he could replicate it in an upcoming performance of his own. "What method do you mean?" I asked, thinking that what I do could scarcely be called something as systematic as that. [...]
