My new poems podcast, Words by Winter, can be found here. This morning I pulled a little book off my poetry shelves that looked like the kind of book I used to search through as a teenager, full of poems and aphorisms and quotes about how to live. Where this book came from I don’t know, but … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Emily Dickinson
My new poems podcast, Words by Winter, can be found here. When we were little we weren’t supposed to swim for an hour after we ate, because if we did, cramps will seize you and you’ll sink to the bottom and drown. Or something like that. And when we got drunk or high we were killing off … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Ursula K. Le Guin
My new poems podcast, Words by Winter, can be found here. “No regrets” is a phrase and a feeling I don’t understand. Regrets, I have plenty. “But every decision and every choice brought you to where you are right now,” a friend argues, in the latest iteration of a conversation we keep having. “How can you possibly … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by David Ray
My new poems podcast, Words by Winter, can be found here. On the way back from a long jog yesterday I glimpsed this book in a little free library. The sight of it brought me straight back to childhood. The poet’s name used to mesmerize me, and so did the poem below, which I copied out as … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Omar Khayyam
My new poems + reflections podcast, Words by Winter, can be found here. A friend in college loved the word bittersweet for the way it made him feel, full of a kind of happiness mixed with sorrow. As if he were missing something while it was still happening. The last time I saw this friend, years ago … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Andrea Gibson
My new poems podcast, Words by Winter, can be found here. Late night. Eight inches of heavy wet flakes. Sound of shovels up and down the block. The specific silence of air that comes only with snow. Lifelong northerner that I am, snow is part of my earliest memories. Snow so deep my sisters and I could … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Wallace Stevens
My new poems podcast, Words by Winter, can be found here. A few days ago we hiked a remote trail north of Yellowstone, a passage between two high ridges that had burned maybe twenty years ago. Carry bear spray and know how to use it. Avoid places where ravens have gathered. Dress your kill and remove the … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Gregory Djanikian
My new poems podcast, Words by Winter, can be found here. In the university class I’m teaching this fall we gather online, small heads nodding from frames, mics unmuting, videos flicking on and off to show children climbing on laps, housemates in the background, dogs and cats, the sound of traffic. Thank you for doing such a … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Tania Runyan
My new poems podcast, Words by Winter, can be found here. Last weekend I showed my daughters around the barn my sisters and I used to play in. The old red barn, where I used to fling the feed in the general direction of my chickens so I could get the hell out of there before Big … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Emma Hine
My new poems podcast, Words by Winter, can be found here. Me to the elementary or high school students I sometimes visit in person or via Zoom: Sometimes does it feel like your feelings are too big to hold inside? Like you might explode because life feels so overwhelming? Heads nod. Hands go up. Maybe you do … Continue reading Poem of the Week (excerpt), by Diane Wakoski
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your own PDK for writing
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