Monthly Archives: November, 2008
Thanks, Again
I came across another favorite poem of mine today and couldn’t believe that I had already posted a thankful poem, and then I thought, “Who says I can’t be thankful and poetic twice?” Thanks by W. S. Merwin Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to …
Thanksgiving
Truth be told, there are not many poems I like that are ostensibly about Thanksgiving, but I wanted to post a poem to leave you with over the week, and to keep in my own mind as we meet up again with friends and family. I found this gem by Lucille Clifton, former poet laureate …
Team of Rivals
The top reader review on Amazon right now for Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln begins by saying, “I feel a bit presumptuous adding the 246th review…” and possibly, this review is presumptuous in a similar fashion. But I recently reread this book, and in light of all the recent comparisons between …
Joy to You and Me
Yesterday I covered a colleague’s class, which I was happy to do mainly because I got to spend the class talking about Walt Whitman, my absolute poetic hero. We talked some about his war poetry, about his connections to Emerson and Thoreau, and then dug into the poems, with a few sections from Song of …
Pour Moi, le Deluge
So clearly, I was really swamped there for a while! There are a lot of reasons why I let this blog languish for a month: The elections, of course, which sucked up a lot of my time and energy. I’m so relieved and grateful that it’s all over, and that history was made in such …
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