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My Two Husbands
I finished reading Second Nature by Michael Pollan last night and I will miss it. In fact, I’ll probably keep it by my bed for late-night reading in the winter. It’s a tour de force of thinking about Americans and … Continue reading
Posted in garden, poetry, reviews, the Farm, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged American landscape, cultivation, Denise Levertov, gardening, Landscape, marriage, Michael Pollan, poetry, prairie, romanticism, Second Nature, wilderness
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Fieldstone
A recent visitor from the UK asked if this part of the country was “the prairie” and if there were any very large farms around. She had heard of these corn and wheat farms that stretched from horizon to horizon … Continue reading
Posted in Benedictine monastery, poetry, St. Joseph, Uncategorized
Tagged farms, field stone, field stone walls, fieldstone, granite, picking rocks, rocks, rocks in farm fields
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The Habits Broadside Project
OK, so it turns out we weren’t exactly north of the storm… In the end, we got 10 inches of heavy snow over 30 hours. This morning, the sand hill cranes were very quiet, delaying their mating rituals until the … Continue reading
Posted in art, Benedictine monastery, poetry, religion, writing
Tagged book arts, broadside, Catholic Nuns, College of Saint Benedict, letterpress, poetry, polymer plates, student artists
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Park Slope
Here is a draft of a new poem. Often I start with a concept or a line. I was thinking about my bedroom, which has a very large desk in it. I never end up using that desk, however, because … Continue reading
The Women
My last semester of college, in 1986, I took a course on American women poets that had a profound effect on me– as a writer and as a reader. The few poets I’d been introduced to by the more traditional … Continue reading
Posted in poetry, reviews, writing
Tagged books by women, Erdrich, feminism and literature, kingsolver, Munro, new novels, Rich
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The Sadness of Poetry
At the poetry retreat last weekend in Texas, there were many fine moments. The 10 people who gathered for a weekend of reading and writing brought full hearts and were ready to dig deep, to play, to listen and respond with generosity. … Continue reading
Posted in poetry, writing
Tagged Anne Sexton, Emily Dickinson, madness and poetry, Pablo Neruda, poetry, reading poetry, romanticism, Sylvia Plath, writing poetry
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Poetry
Since finishing Habits, I’ve been trying to get back to writing poetry. I’m facilitating a poetry workshop this weekend in Texas, and although the prospect was at first very anxiety-producing, as I’ve prepared, I’ve gotten more excited about it. Trying to figure … Continue reading
Posted in poetry, writing
Tagged learning to read, letters, poems, reading, writing, writing poetry
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The Ice Man
Today I have two poems to offer, one my own, but deeply indebted to Wallace Stevens’ poem, “The Snow Man.” Really, that poem could be about the ice fishermen who sit, always alone, on the small ponds and lakes around … Continue reading
Posted in art, poetry
Tagged fishing, frozen lakes, ice fishing, poetry, snow man, snowman, Wallace Stevens, winter poetry
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Self-Publishing part 2, the publicity edition
Today is a big day at my house. My book, Habits, a collection of 100-word stories about nuns, is receiving major publicity this weekend. The article written by Frank Lee for the St. Cloud Times that appeared last weekend was picked … Continue reading
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Searching for Sugar Man and finding Jim Croce
Probably one of the most important early music memories I have is of Jim Croce’s death. In 1973, just as his career was taking off, he died in a plane crash in Louisiana. I was nine years old, and my father … Continue reading