The other day, Meg wrote a post about poetry and story-telling which was inspired by a commentary she had read – and read to me – that suggested poets have too much abandoned stories for word-play, making them increasingly inaccessible and irrelevant to all but a small segment of the population. Now, I confess. I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Poetry’
Plain Poetry, Frogs and Wartime
Posted in Misc., Reading and Writing, tagged Central America, Poetry, Reading and Writing on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Poetry Ritual
Posted in Reading and Writing, Relationships, tagged Poetry, Reading and Writing on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the last several weeks now, Meg and I have had a new ritual. Each night before sleep, we read a few poems to each other, alternating responsibility for the reading and the appreciating. We’ve shared favourites, we’ve re-discovered old volumes on the bookshelf, we’ve sought out or stumbled upon voices that are new or [...]
Quebec City: the first morning
Posted in Misc., tagged History, Personal, Poetry on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We look out the hotel window over the Plains of Abraham, the St. Lawrence loping along one side, three-hundred year-old cathedrals and row houses jostling with chain restaurants along the other. I arrived a few hours before my luggage last night, early enough to meet Megan after her first day of union convention and have [...]
Wasting Time With A Post on Rhyme
Posted in Misc., Reading and Writing, tagged Poetry, Reading and Writing on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I woke up thinking about Ogden Nash – the man who taught us, among other things, that we’ll never see a billboard lovely as a tree, and that, when it comes to gettin’ close to a lady friend, “candy is dandy but liquor is quicker”. I’m a fan of the rhyme. Couplets. limericks, rhythm [...]
