Happy New Year!
New Year’s Wishes! (the body parts sonnet) Your heart has wished folks well on New Year’s Eve.You’ve sung “Should old acquaintance be forgot…”(Your brain recalled the right words – did […]
Poetry
Faces That Greet Me When I Wake Up
On weekdays, my clock radio turns on at 3:58 a.m. Why not 4:00? Because the NPR radio station I listen to gives the local weather for New York, where I
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The Sun in Poetry
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké Still are there wonders of the dark and day: The muted shrilling of shy things at night, So small beneath
Acrostic Poem
Roaming aroundOur supermarket but neverBuying anything, just alwaysOmnipresent, its teeth areText.
Sun Poem: Death on a Bicycle
Death on a Bicycle If you train on a road bike during the boiling hot summer in Nakajo, Japan,Your most valuable equipment, more than glovesHelmet or spare tire,Is sunglasses. There
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The Sun in Poetry
In Tall Grass Bees and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse in a pasture corner —a skull in the tall grass and
Enriched Environment: Patter Songs
I sent my sister a Gilbert and Sullivan parody by Randy Rainbow. It’s the second video below; the original Gilbert and Sullivan song is the first. My sister wrote back,
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The Sun in Poetry
Medusa I had come to the house, in a cave of trees, Facing a sheer sky. Everything moved,—a bell hung ready to strike, Sun and reflection wheeled by. When the
Got My Goat
Acrostic Poem Go quick! Get me anOnion sandwich on moldy rye bread with spiny Artichoke leaves, rancid mayonnaise and perhaps a usedTea bag. Yum! The above poem is completely untruthful,
Teachers College Columbia University: Distinguished Alumni Award
Here I am standing on the stage in the breakfast room at Teachers College Columbia University. Professor Jo Anne Kleifgen, my doctoral dissertation adviser from the 1990s, is reading a
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