say goodbye, say hello
Seattle’s poetry bookstore, Open Books: A Poem Emporium, invites you to stop by after hours on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, August 26, 27, and 28, 2016, to say goodbye and thank you to longtim… Source: say goodbye, say hello
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Entries by Bethany
Crazy Brave
This past week a friend of mine invited me to go to Portland and write poetry. My mother was stable, my kiddo was home from camp and getting caught up on her on-line classes. My husband would have to do without me for only three days and two nights. We were staying at my friend’s […]
To Be Kind
A friend was confiding in me about a situation in her life that deeply upsets her. She is a poet — a genius of a poet — so, while I tried to be a good listener and not jump in with personal advice, I asked her if she’s tried writing about it. “Not yet,” she […]
Titles
This morning I picked up Jane Kenyon’s Collected Poems and read for a long time before settling on this one: NOT WRITING A wasp rises to its papery nest under the eaves where it daubs at the gray shape, but seems unable to enter its own house. The title makes this poem what it is. (Imagine it as “Not […]