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Blog poetry

A Well-Loved Poet and Gatherer of People
October 18, 2015
When I moved to Laurinburg, North Carolina, in June to teach at St. Andrews University, one of the first people I met was Ronald H. Bayes read more
Tags: Black Mountain poets, Joseph Bathanti, Laurinburg, NC, poetry, poets, Ronald H. Bayes, St. Andrews University, Ted Wojtasik

Slow Irony, Sure Wit
January 20, 2015
Slow Irony seeks to link the pleasures of humorous insight with a commitment to “go local” in matters key to a community.
Forty-two years ago, at a weekend retreat held at St. Andrews Presbyterian College, read more
Tags: Grace Loving Gibson, higher education, irony, Laurinburg, North Carolina, place, poetry, retirement community, Ron Bayes, Scotia Village, St. Andrews University, Ted Wojtasik, wisdom, wit

Crocuses, UConn, and Derek Jeter
April 12, 2014
Typically around this time of year crocuses incite a gasp of delight, and they did again this year — just a few days ago in the backyard of the rented house to which I moved a few months ago and the next day, more robust ones, read more
Tags: amazement, baseball, basketball, Breanna Stewart, Derek Jeter, essays, Floyd Skloot, form, heroes, hybrid form, lyric essays, New School, nonfiction, Peter Cooley, poetry, sports, standards, UConn women's basketball, writing

Onset of Spring?
February 1, 2014
Most of this post — Robin Robertson’s poem, the photographs taken in November in Frenchtown, NJ — was compiled in a moment of late November pause, read more
Tags: Calendars, family, February 1, Festivals, Frenchtown, Gaelic, Gerald Stern, holidays, Imbolc, NJ, North Carolina, poetry, Robin Robertson, Samhain, Spring, winter

Waiting Ahead
November 1, 2013
Amy Bagwell is a force for poetry in public spaces in Charlotte, NC. Spurred first by her love of poetry and her passion that it be out there for everyone to read read more
Tags: A. R. Ammons, Amy Bagwell, art and design, Billy Collins, Central Piedmond Community College, Charlotte, Charlotte Center City Partners, Jon Pineda, Leiden 101 Murals, NC, poetry, Poetry In Motion, Poetry Society of America, public art, Queens University, Wall Poems of Charlotte

Abundance
May 16, 2013
Leighton B. McKeithen, Jr.
March 12, 1925 – May 8, 2013
Tags: Cameron, father, Fayetteville, Leighton McKeithen, North Carolina, poetry, Presbyterian, tribute, William Stafford, WWII

Southern Literary Festival
March 5, 2013
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

There I was told:
August 23, 2012
In a bookstore on Broadway, behind towering stacks that bring to mind bookstores past (and some present) and in front of a large clear window, read more
Tags: Carol Peters, Catallus, Cecil Day Lewis, Dylan Thomas, e. e. cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Harryette Mullen, James Wright, John Ashbery, John Donne, Laura Riding, Lisa Robertson, Marianne Moore, Maureen McLane, poetry, Wallace Stevens, William Wordsworth