Ted Kooser
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“Pearl” by Ted Kooser
I had the opportunity of meeting Ted Kooser some years ago. At the time, he was serving as Poet Laureate of the United States; I was just a college student taking a creative writing boot camp at University of Texas Pan American (which has since become the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley). I chose Continue reading
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National Poetry Month 2021
“The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman “Fight for Love” by Andrea Gibson “To Elsie” by William Carlos Williams “A Life of Errands” by Leonard Cohen “American Arithmetic” by Natalie Diaz “In the Event of My Demise” by Tupac Amaru Shakur “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” by Richard Wilbur “Grief Calls Continue reading
Alex Lemon, Amanda Gorman, Andrea Gibson, Anne Sexton, Celina Gomez, Charles Simic, Claudia Rankine, Clint Smith III, Darius Simpson, Edgar Allan Poe, Franny Choi, Ire'ne Lara Silva, Isaac Nellum, Jared Singer, Joy Harjo, Justin Phillip Reed, Leonard Cohen, Molly Brodak, Natalie Diaz, National Poetry Month, Richard Wilbur, Saul Williams, Shane Koyczan, Sherman Alexie, Ted Kooser, Tracy K. Smith, Tupac Amaru Shakur, Vijay Seshadri, William Carlos Williams -
We’ll try this again — again
I started my book blog – The Book Hunter’s Journal – on 27 June 2009 with a post about a $3-bag book sale at the McAllen Public Library. My partners in crime were, of course, Monica and an excited Squid. With my 446th post, made on 17 June 2013, I said goodbye to the blog Continue reading
Chapin City Blues 