I bought a dozen pearl arrowhead erasers - an affordable luxury at .19 a pop. So of course I had to sharpen some pencils to go with them! (Poems come from such small things, don't they? From pencils and and erasers and pencil sharpeners, from those who lived in our homes before us, from awkwardness, [...]
After a recent performance of poetry and song, a man approached me and told me that he wanted to learn my "method" so he could replicate it in an upcoming performance of his own. "What method do you mean?" I asked, thinking that what I do could scarcely be called something as systematic as that. [...]
Every single new thing we do - everything - brings up fears, teaches lessons, and leaves us with gifts. Whether we are climbing Everest or going to a party, taking up salsa dancing or singing a solo, this is all part of the package. It's a package that leaves us different than we were: expanded, [...]
Here is my setting of John Drinkwater's poem, "Moonlit Apples," a poem that reminds us how the ordinary can become extraordinary. There is mystery and a hidden life in everything, and it's the poet's pleasure to perceive that hidden life and celebrate it. I loved this poem from my very first reading and it wasn't [...]
