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We Fly Through the Air

Posted in Anne Sexton, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Brenda Shaughnessy, David Pedlow, Elizabeth Bishop, Jack Prelutsky, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Maxine Kumin, Rita Dove, Tony Curtis, W.H. Auden, William Carlos Williams, William Stafford, Yusef Komunyakaa on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In April, we shared poems about traveling through the air. Diana hosted, inviting us with a lovely little poem:
Along Jersey’s highways and byways,
I sought a topic for the poems
that we will read when we next gather,
April 13, at Frances’s home.
I wish I could outwit distance
and entertain all you poetic folks
here in my five-cat condo
deep in [...]

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We Get Dressed

Posted in Anne Sexton, Anne Waldman, Charles Simic, Donall Dempsey, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Honor Moore, Judith Viorst, Marge Piercy, Robert Herrick, Robert Pinsky, Shel Silverstein, William Shakespeare on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On January 20 we gathered at Jan’s to share our poems about clothing. As Jan says,
Poetry has always been drawn to the subject of dress and undress…
Thus it’s the topic I’ve chosen
be it tunics or robes
or blouses of silk
pantaloons, trousers or lieder hosen.
Poets, it seems, have indeed had a lot to say about what we [...]

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We Take Tea and Poetry

Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, Edwin Morgan, Emily MacLachlan Charest, Jane Hirshfield, Ogden Nash, Patricia MacLachlan, Paul Muldoon, Tupak Shakur, Walt Whitman, Wislawa Szymborska, wang ping on October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »

On Sunday, October 21, we indulged in high tea at Karen’s house and read the following poems:
Wislawa Szymborska (1923- ) Nobel prize winner, 1996 –  bio
The Railroad Station
Anne Sexton (1928-1974) – bio

Just Once
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) – bio
The Last Invocation
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) – bio
A Supermarket in California
Morning
Ogden Nash (1902-1971) – bio
Song the Open Road - a [...]

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