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We Two Boys together Clinging /Walt Whitman

I promised myself to read more Walt Whitman this month. I always had a slight allergy to his loose-limbed lines but inspired by my visit...

Jun 20, 20222 min read

The Swan / Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver is the best-selling poet in America by a long shot. And her life, mostly in Provincetown, Massachusetts but in her last years...

Jun 13, 20221 min read

Thunder / Elizabeth Bishop

I love Elizabeth Bishop's poetry. The Moose and The Sandpiper are both masterpieces. But I came across this uncollected sonnet of hers...

May 26, 20221 min read

We're building the ship as we sail it / Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan is an erstwhile America Poet Laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner. But what is so delicious about her poem are the mordent...

Jan 21, 20224 min read

Every broken heart is sacred

The final blog in my series of seven from 2013 is perhaps the juiciest of them all. I was all tender from a very intense, heart-breaking...

Oct 11, 20216 min read

Coming out is (still) good for you

This is an article I wrote almost 10 years ago but it still seems to hit the right note. COMING OUT IS GOOD FOR YOU. This article was...