I drove west this weekend to visit my family. It’s exactly five hours from home to home, enough time for a few podcasts and some prolonged daydreaming. This time I had stocked my podcast app with “The Writer’s Almanac.” Its piano intro and Garrison Keillor’s familiar murmuring voice remind me of home. I remember listening […]
Read MoreOnly a few days left in Poetry Month. Today’s poem is The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop. Click here to read it.
Read MoreWhere I grew up, there were streets and schools named after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Not because he had ever lived there, but probably because of his poem The Song of Hiawatha and its geographical references. Longfellow was a celebrity in his time, though he had his share of highbrow critics who were dismissive of his popularity. Celebrity […]
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