Last Night

At a poetry workshop I attended last night - we warmed up reading some individual poems. I read an Anne Sexton. Also - upon arriving home - flipped through my latest copy of the New Yorker and read a poem by W. S. Merwin titled A Letter To Su T'ung Po. I really found Merwin's poem striking. I loved the way it meshed the past with the present. A most memorable line: "...thinking of you one your river that one bright sheet of moonlight..."

This weekend....

I am today reading The Book of Folly by Anne Sexton. Published in 1972 it was a winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Killing Time

Spent yesterday and this morning in the hospital for some tests, as a result I got to read a number of perms thanks to Daughter #2 who brought an anthology for me to read. It was more of a casual reading given much of it was late last night when I was unable to sleep so I was not in any analytical mode, but the following are some of the poets I read:

1. D.H. Lawrence
2. Jane Kenyon
3. Edna St. Vincent Millay
4. Anne Sexton
5. Raymond Carver
6. Robert Frost
7. Sharon Olds
8. Donald Hall
9. Stephen Dunn