A Hassidic Tale: On our inability to fit in
A king dearly loved his son and hoped he would some day become king. One day the young prince suddenly took off all his clothes, got down on his hands … Continue reading
Naomi Shihab Nye: The Art Of Teaching Poetry
Why is it that so many people say they don’t “get” poetry? As teachers, how can we approach poetry so that it doesn’t seem to our students like a puzzle … Continue reading
Chard deNiord: Poetry
The secret I have no say in keeping is safe with me and everyone else who sees himself in the space between the stars. How to tell what can’t … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Best New Poets Under Three
A Review Peter Patenaud, who at one, has produced two volumes that hearken to a shadow life before his soul, dipped in Lethe, came clean into this world as the … Continue reading
Arlene Weiner: An Oven Bird (with apologies to Robert Frost)
We’d eaten quite as much as we were able of the brown bird that stood mid-meal, mid-table. We’d carved and passed it. Some had taken seconds, and when we pushed … Continue reading
Cherokee Prayer of Thanksgiving
Ga lu lo hi gi ni du da
Sky our grandfather
Jose Padua: Every Man for Himself
The brother nods back silently to me as he places my jar of honey with ginger in a paper bag at the monastery store in Berryville. Why would such a … Continue reading
Video: “One Boy Told Me” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye may be the most loved poet in America. Here she reads a poem that evokes a young boy’s imagination.
Doug Anderson: How She Was
I stood with my mother waiting for the Walk sign at an intersection in downtown Tucson. It was Sunday and the town was deserted. The two of us and a … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Coming Home
Originally posted on Shenandoah Breakdown:
When the policeman tells me to pull over to the curb because the woman with the pearly white smile just told him that I nearly…
Sir Thomas Wyatt: Abide
I abide and abide and better abide, And after the old proverb, the happy day; And ever my lady to me doth say, “Let me alone and I will provide.” … Continue reading
Chard deNiord: Lost Things
You find other lost things while looking for the lost thing, things that are consolations for what’s missing, things you also looked for with the same intensity that faded in … Continue reading
