"The most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time." Mary Oliver

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Closer in words

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Abstraction and reality: Robert Hass’s famous "Meditation at Lagunitas"

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What does this poem mean, and how?

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Why are bees so sexy?

Reality versus experience

Where is your escape place?

Do you comfort yourself with poems? Which ones?

The solsticr marks a precise moment in the passage of time.

Poems about fathers I don’t know help me see my own father more clearly.

Ways poems can honor others or mark occasions

A poem by Kenneth Rexroth, that is and is not about my mother.

Because You Asked: a poem for Nidhin

Keats died thinking he would be forgotten.

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There are lots of things I notice. And lots I fail to.

A poem about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Yusef Komunyakaa

I was taught (and I have taught) that everypoem needs a title. Now, I am not so sure.