C.K. Williams
Kim Addonizio
Jack Gilbert
W.B. Yeats
Martha McPhee
Ian McEwan
Taylor Caldwell
John Fowles
Susan Minot
Anne Tyler
Joni Mitchell
Dean Young
I wanted to draw your attention to a website of poetry responding to the BP Oil Spill: http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/Tell others about it, and send in a poem.
I had to share the good news!: Garrison Keillor selected one of my poems, "The Nose On Your Face," for his Writer's Almanac for August 28, 2010. The poem is from my new collection, Zephyr. http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/Zephyr was just published this summer. Two Berkeley readings:I'm reading with Sharon Coleman on Wed Sept 1 @ 7:30pmPegasus Books2349 Shattuck ...
Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the timeI am being carried on great winds across the sky.--OjibwayMost of the time, I think we are being carried on great winds across the sky. There is help all around us, in the forms of people and nature and mysterious gifts from an address unknown.At seven-thirty this morning I called the Chevron gas station in my little town of Montclair to see ...