Santa Clara Review
In the mail on Saturday — two copies of the very fine new issue of The Santa Clara Review. (Click on this link to go to an on-line version.) My poems, “Where She Lies Down,” and “In Her Dream of Winter,” appear on pages 59 and 61.
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“And she started being a cat again…”
My friend Susan recently told me an inspiring story, and she gave me permission to share it here. Susan is an utterly sane cat lady. Bona fide. Not long ago a friend at a shelter called her to ask if she would take a cat that had been traumatized. “This cat is going to die […]
Life Hungers to Abound
This evening I am attending the wedding celebration of my cousin’s daughter. In that spirit, here is an audio clip of Richard Wilbur reading his poem, “A Wedding Toast.” (See the link.) https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/wedding-toast-audio-only?mbd=1
Station Eleven, revisited
When Emily St. John Mandel’s novel, Station Eleven, first came out in hardback, I resisted it. I picked it up a few times, reading the opening (I loved the opening), but — oh, gee, it was another dystopian novel, and did I really want to read or watch one more story about the end of life as we know […]