I’m starting off my month of poems today in honor of National Poetry Month. This is one of my mom’s favorites and I remember her quoting it to me when I was young. We lived hundreds and hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean, but who doesn’t love its beauty and mystery? Sea Fever by […]
Poetry intimidates me. It makes me feel underdressed for the occasion. It drops names I don’t know. Sometimes, it makes fun of my plain Midwestern accent. It wasn’t always this way. I first met poetry–where else?–in the unpretentious pages of Dr. Seuss as I read about the red fish and the blue fish and the […]