Singing, each to each

Singing, each to each

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Glass Slipper Triolets and other poems
A.E. Stallings, Oblique Strategies, NaPoWriMo, The Bat Poet, and repetitive forms
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June Books
In which I finally finish The Betrothed, binge read Katherine Addison, review two collections of poetry, and start (but do not finish) too many books.
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The Wreckers, Or Thirteen Blackbirds Looking at Waves
An ekphrastic poem and some thoughts about visiting my favorite museum
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June 2025

Mountains in Summer
After a painting by Van Gogh
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Et in Acadia Ego
a long account of a short vacation in Maine
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Mother and Child
a pair of ekphrastic poems inspired by two of Christian Krohg's paintings
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Two Masted Schooner with Dory by Winslow Homer
an ekphrastic poem
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Books I read in May
May has been another quiet month with far less reading accomplished than I’d like.
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May 2025

Visitation: The Place of Delight and Rest
an ekphrastic poem
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One's own sort of life
Reading Jane Eyre alongside Green Dolphin Street
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Ekphrasis with Van Gogh
a collection of poems and the paintings that inspired them
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Farming the Wind
a partial timeline of a poetic obsession and some thoughts on poetic process
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