Month: March 2023

Wood: Wisdom from My Eldest Son #Poem #Poetry #Wood #Identity #Son #Wisdom #Nature

20 Mar 2023

Back in 2015, I taught a one-week summer poetry workshop. For one of their assignments, I challenged my students to compare themselves to one of the core elements or something from nature. My poem, “Elementary Matters”, based on this concept, can be found by clicking on the poem title. The poem below comes from the … More Wood: Wisdom from My Eldest Son #Poem #Poetry #Wood #Identity #Son #Wisdom #Nature

Photo of the Day Poems: Three Irish Setters #Poem #Poetry #Irish #Dogs #Setters

14 Mar 2023

In honor of Saint Patrick’s Day this Friday, here’s an unpublished photo poem from my collection of works inspired by images from The Guardian’s Photo of the Day posts that I wrote back in 2019. Though these Irish setters aren’t fooling around on what was the first day of the Crufts dog show, I found … More Photo of the Day Poems: Three Irish Setters #Poem #Poetry #Irish #Dogs #Setters

Morning: Mary Oliver’s Antidote for Tax Season #Poem #Poetry #Morning #Taxes #World #Soul #MaryOliver

6 Mar 2023

Between getting the budget lined up for March, paying my regular bills, and working on filing my taxes, I somehow lost the weekend and suffocated my soul. All I wanted to do last night was crawl into bed and just go to sleep, but I took the time to drink from Mary Oliver’s poetry. There’s … More Morning: Mary Oliver’s Antidote for Tax Season #Poem #Poetry #Morning #Taxes #World #Soul #MaryOliver