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When I was in high school in Fayetteville in the early 1970s, my best evenings at home were when my father would build a fire in the living room fireplace.
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Love/is no less practical/than a coffee grinder*
June 9, 2013
Responding on my mother’s behalf to the sympathy cards she’s received following my father’s death is a sweet task she and I share, even long-distance. I sit at the east-facing window in my apartment and read of the gratitude people have for my father’s life. read more
Tags: Cameron, combat, gratitude, Greenwich Village, Jack Gilbert, James Wright, Jane Hirshfield, Leighton McKeithen, North Carolina, obligation, poems, Robert Bly, Seamus Heaney, thanks, Tony Hoagland, WWII
Abundance
May 16, 2013
Leighton B. McKeithen, Jr.
March 12, 1925 – May 8, 2013 read more
Tags: Cameron, father, Fayetteville, Leighton McKeithen, North Carolina, poetry, Presbyterian, tribute, William Stafford, WWII
In Play and Four Women
April 29, 2013
Splendid Playground, the Guggenheim exhibit of post-war Japanese art from the Gutai group that closes May 8th, includes TANAKA Atsuko’s “Electric Dress”, 1956, read more
Tags: Atsuko Tanaka, Brenda Hillman, Fun, Guggenheim, Gutai Art, Lucille Clifton, Play, Sarah Sarai, serious fun
Caught
April 17, 2013
Street, at the Metropolitan Museum, an exhibit that features an hour-long video by James Nares edited from 16 hours read more
Tags: Berenice Abbott, experience, Giacometti, James Nares, looking, NC, New York, Southern Pines, Spring
Southern Literary Festival
March 5, 20131 comment
Each season brings a new pace. Spring carries particular anticipation — if only a momentary perspective, read more
Tags: Columbus State University, Dan Albergotti, Georgia, Kevin Wilson, moment, Natasha Trethewey, poetry, Points South, Southern Literary Festival, Spring, Stephen Dobyns, Tim O'Brien, vernal equinox
Klee & Montale at year’s end
December 28, 2012
Paul Klee’s Old Man Counting is on view at the Met through read more
Tags: art, countdown, creativity, Inner Forces, Klee, Montale, New Year, Old Man Counting
“All those stories looking down on me”
October 30, 2012
Waking the Morning After Sandy — with Bonnie Raitt’s lyrics and Denise Levertov’s poem. read more
Tags: Bonnie Raitt, Denise Levertov, Hurricane Sandy, local heroes, morning, New York
As if your life depended on it
October 15, 2012
I am afraid Iran will launch nuclear weapons and Israel will in response — this from a doctor on the UWS, read more
Tags: Adrienne Rich, Argo, Ben Affleck, Charles Baxter, Clifford Garstang, death, Dodge Poetry Festival, entertainment, Felice Aull, John Brehm, John Lane, movies, Natasha Tretheway, politics, Rilke, Ron Rash, Thomas Lux, Thomas Lynch, writing