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American Life in Poetry: Column 533
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I once knew an artist who seemed to live on those little envelopes of free sugar that one can find on tables in restaurants. And he took the little “watercolor pans” of jelly, too, stuffing his pockets. Here’s… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 533“
American Life in Poetry: Column 532
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE How’s this poem for its ability to collapse all the years from childhood to middle age in a matter of fifteen short lines? George Bilgere is one of this column’s favorite poets. He lives and teaches in Ohio.… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 532“
American Life in Poetry: Column 531
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Many of the poems that have survived the longest are very short. Some of them are a couple of thousand years old. They have somehow managed to perfectly catch life in just a few words and we can… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 531“
American Life in Poetry: Column 530
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Poets often do their best work when they’re telling us about something they’ve seen without stepping into the poem and talking about themselves. Here’s a lovely poem of observation by Terri Kirby Erickson, who lives in North Carolina.… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 530“
American Life in Poetry: Column 529
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE People speak of “hearts and flowers” when they’re talking about poems with predictable sentimentality, but here’s an antidote to all those valentines, from Sally Bliumis-Dunn, who lives in New York. Her most recent book of poems is Second… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 529“
American Life in Poetry: Column 527
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Seventy years ago, when I entered Beardshear Elementary in Ames, Iowa, the school employed a custodian, Mr. Shockley, who had for an office a closet under the stairs. I wish I could thank him for mopping up all… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 527“
American Life in Poetry: Column 528
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE A couple I know adopted three very small children from a distant country, and the children had never been constrained in any way. The airliner’s seatbelts were so fearful for them that they screamed all the way back… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 528“
American Life in Poetry: Column 526
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I once attended a memorial service at which a friend’s ashes were put in the Platte River at first light, just as thousands of Sandhill Cranes were lifting off the water, crying. Flowing water has just what it… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 526“
American Life in Poetry: Column 525
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Here’s a fine poem about two generations of husbands, by Pauletta Hansel of Ohio. Husbands My mother likes a man who works. She likes my husband’s muddy knees, grass stains on the cuffs. She loved my father, though… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 525“
American Life in Poetry: Column 524
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I don’t think I’ve ever sold anything that, later, I didn’t wish I had back, and I have a list of regrets as long as my arm. So this poem by Melissa Balmain really caught my attention. Balmain… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 524“
American Life in Poetry: Column 523
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Some of us will be eating ham on Easter, and I thought I’d offer you a poem about a champion pig, by Jill Breckenridge, a Minnesotan who has written a series of poems based on that state’s fair.… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 523“
American Life in Poetry: Column 522
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Poetry is a good way to capture epiphanies, and this poem by Penny Harter does just that. Harter lives and teaches in New Jersey. In the Dark At bedtime, my grandson’s breath rasps in and out of fragile… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 522“
American Life in Poetry: Column 521
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Amanda Strand is a poet living in Maryland. I like this poem for its simplicity, clarity and directness. No frills to decorate it, just the kind of straightforward accounting of an experience that Henry David Thoreau said he… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 521“
American Life in Poetry: Column 520
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE With this column American Life in Poetry celebrates its tenth anniversary. Thanks to all of you for supporting us, week in and week out! When I was a boy, I was advised that if a wasp landed on… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 520“
American Life in Poetry: Column 519
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Many of us have built models from kits—planes, ships, cars. Here’s Robert Hedin, a Minnesota poet and the director of The Anderson Center at Tower View in Red Wing, trying to assemble a little order while his father… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 519“
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