Upcoming appearances
- Faculty, North Shore Young Writers' Conference, Beverly, MA, Mar. 2 and 3
- Visiting writer, North Yarmouth Academy, North Yarmouth, ME, April 5
- Reading from the works of Wislawa Szymborska, Plunkett Poetry Festival, University of Maine at Augusta, April 14
- "The Dramatic Monologue: Writing a Different 'I,'" a workshop with Teresa Carson, Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA, April 20-22
- Visiting writer, Lisbon Regional School, Lisbon, NH, Apr. 26
- Reading, Frost Place, Franconia, NH, June 24
- Faculty, Frost Place Conference on Poetry & Teaching, Franconia, NH, June 24-28
- Reading with Peggy O'Brien, Collected Poets Series, Shelburne Falls, MA, July 5, 7 p.m.
- Brown Bag Lecture Series, Portland Public Library, Portland, ME, Aug. 8, 12 p.m.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Five or six inches of snow on the ground and another morning of grumpy children clomping off to uncanceled school: coffee and sentence fragments and applesauce cake for breakfast: a poodle who takes the lyrics of Professor Longhair to heart ("she walks right in, she walks right out, she walks right in, she walks right out," etc., etc.): working (me, not the poodle) to figure out an expanded punctuational role for the colon: a pink flowered bathrobe and slippers that make my feet hot: the world's most beautiful rosemary plant glowing spikily before my eyes: a freshly dusted desk with a charming tiny edition of Thomas Carlyle's Essay on Burns open on my copy stand: a window view of fir trees loaded with new snow: all of my western Pennsylvania reference books arranged in a tidy row beside my grandfather's ancient cabinet radio: the thought of composing a thought:
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