Schlagwort: Don Thompson

44. American Life in Poetry: Column 341

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE   Here’s a poem of mixed feelings by Don Thompson to help us launch October. Thompson lives in Buttonwillow, California, which sounds like the name of a town in a children’s story, don’t you think?   October  … Continue Reading „44. American Life in Poetry: Column 341“

36. American Life in Poetry: Column 272

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Whether we like it or not, we live with the awareness that death is always close at hand, and in this poem by Don Thompson, a Californian, a dead blackbird can’t be pushed out of the awareness of… Continue Reading „36. American Life in Poetry: Column 272“