Monthly Archives: January 2019

Too Soon, Tony, Too Soon – R.I.P. Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) – Poet as Wounded Citizen

January 29, 2019 – 9:50 pm

At the Galleria Just past the bin of pastel baby socks and underwear, there are some 49-dollar Chinese-made TVs; one of them singing news about a far-off war, one comparing […]

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Spell bound! Looking Back at the La Romita Poetry Retreat, October 2018

January 21, 2019 – 6:57 pm

In Italy IV Road shouldered by enclosing walls with narrow cobbled tracks for streets, those hill towns with their stamp-sized squares and a sea pinned by the arrow of a […]

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No Mere Visitor to this Earth! R.I.P. Mary Oliver (1935-2019)

January 17, 2019 – 6:39 pm

When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the […]

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Announcing My 2019 Ten-Day Poetry Retreat in Italy

January 3, 2019 – 11:36 pm

“To Be Fished by Poetry – Writing En Plein Air” A Ten-Day Generative Poetry Writing Retreat with Richard Osler – experienced poetry facilitator and author of Hyaena Season La Romita […]

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