Tag: poems
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April 17, 2014
Some book titles seem like short poems to me: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (Grace Paley), A River Runs Through It (Norman Maclean) And then there is Bill Holm’s wonderful The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth. Say those words out loud. The heart can be filled anywhere on earth. Now, look out…
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January 21, 2014
Candlewick Press bundles up my mail and sends it to me once a week and I never know what I am going to find in that package, but invariably, I am moved, humbled. This week, I received a batch of letters from 4th grade students in St. Cloud, Minnesota. They wrote to me about the…
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September 5, 2013
Every morning, after I write in my journal, I read poetry . . . just a few poems, enough to get me oriented and grounded. And after the poems, I read from The Pocket Pema Chodron. These short teachings and ruminations from a Buddhist nun have the same effect on me as poetry. So this…