“Poetry began when somebody walked off a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, “Ah-h-h!” That was the first poem.”
– Lucille Clifton
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by Barbara Abercrombie • • 4 Comments
I’m writing this in Twin Bridges, Montana. It’s 32 degrees outside and I’m 90 miles away from the big city, Bozeman. This morning I’ve been reading a book of poems, Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison by Ted Kooser. Each poem is about a morning walk he takes from November 9th to March 20th. The day’s date becomes the title of the poem … (click on the title to be taken to the full post)
Student Spotlight
student spotlight: betsy rosenthal
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 3 Comments
I just got an e-mail from Betsy Rosenthal who was a student ten years ago (and I still remembered her first published essay – a wonderful piece about suddenly becoming her own mother when she had kids). She wrote me that …