In the interest of public safety during the COVID-19 emergency, the City of Manitowoc canceled its annual Memorial Day event. Every other year on this day, I walked to Veterans’ Park on N. 18th Street for the ceremony after the annual parade. Families in previous years lined the terraces on both sides of Michigan Avenue…
Poetry Books Received: May
Six O’Clock Mine Report by Irene McKinney “Maybe because I am married and felt secure and dead at once” from “Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia“ Benediction and Baseball by Ed Werstein “But still, I stayed within the lines could never find the proper color for defiance like theirs.” from “Casablanca Colorized” The Orchard…
Books
Emilie Lindemann and I edited the collection for the 3rd Poetry Alive! event at the Manitowoc Public Library, a celebration of National Poetry Month held on April 2, 2022. I especially want to thank Karen Hansen of the Manitowoc Public Library and the Friends of the Library for sponsoring the program, publishing the booklet, and…
Reading & Book Reviews
Running list of books I read, finish, and (sometimes) report upon. Peggy’s books Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed I enjoyed this one. Reading about other people’s problems is always interesting. It can be fatiguing to read an advice column one after another after another such as…
Seventeen Poems, Almost There
Public domain illustration from Barrie, J.J. Peter and Wendy ; Margaret Ogilvy. New York, Scribner, 1912. Accessed from Internet Archive Book Images. What else can I say? Polished, perfected, they are dead. Not dead like a shell or a stone, an object desirable enough to grasp and carry home, fascinating in your hand. No, more…