We are in the hands of a poet
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I feel an awful lot better
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009Conversation with a 3 Year Old
Friday, January 9th, 2009My very good friend and colleague Erin, somewhere in the Intermountain West, has sent me this recent exchange with her daughter — this kid (and Mom) are poets!
Maeve: “How’s it going, mama?”
Me: “Things are pretty good. How are you doing tonight Maeve?”
Maeve: “Bad.”
Me: “Bad? How come?”
Maeve: “Because I don’t have antlers in my head.”
New Year’s on the Montreal Metro
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Berri-UQAM under a watchful eye
I simply couldn’t resist posting this cell-photo.
William Carlos Williams on Poetry versus Prose
Thursday, November 27th, 2008In response to a critic who asked:
‘That looks like prose not poetry, what’s your distinction?’
Williams said:
‘It’s poetry because I say it’s poetry.’