Recent Reads....

Little behind on this....

Kelli Russell Agodon - Small Knots - Fabulous!!

W. S. Merwin - Reading in his book The Moving Target - I continue to be impressed by Merwin's style and broad topical range.

Ruth Stone - Readin in her book Ordinary Words. What a remarkable person.

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.

A few poets that I read this past week -

• Fenny Sterenborg
• Sharon Olds
• Aleah Sato

squeezed in over lunch hour

Today I read:

• Mahmoud Darwish - who is totally new to me
• Raymond Carver - whom I have read before

Poets I read yesterday -

• Aleah Sato
• Catherine Daly
• Joel M. Toledo
• Faye Adams

This Past Week in Review

This past week I've read a variety of poets. Some new to me and many who were not. In fact I read a number of poems that I was already well acquainted with. Material from Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Donald Hall, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Bly. Some new material to me by Robert Wrigley (Discretion is I believe one on my new favorites!), Alan Michael Parker, David Kirby, Daniel Wilcox, and Paul Durkan. Durkan's poem, The Poetry Reading Last Night In The Royal Hibernian Hotel is hysterical.