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Apr 9 2021

APRIL 9 - POETRY AND DEEPLY FELT EXPERIENCE 

Yesterday, I suggested that writing a poem can commemorate an experience such that you can return to it again and again. In fact, some deeply felt experiences are difficult, if not impossible, to describe in a language other than the…

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Apr 8 2021

April 8 - Found in a Poem 

Celebrating National Poetry Month.

William Carlos Williams said: 

                     “It is difficult 
                      to get the news from poems 
                      yet men die miserably every day 
                      for lack 
                      of what is found there.” 

What can be found in a poem? Mary Oliver’s poems…

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Apr 7 2021

April, she's still here, and so is your poem #2! 

Welcome to Day 2 of posting a poem a day from “Raised in the Shadow” in honor of National Poetry Month! As always, you can scroll to the bottom of this post to hear me read you today's poem.

 Thanks…

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Apr 6 2021

"April, she will come": National Poetry Month 

April is National Poetry Month!

Poetry has the power to open you up and suspend time, elevate you. It opens the door into the moment. It's too long a story to tell here, but suffice it to say that my…

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Jul 25 2016

The Restless Desire to Make Art

Monday, July 25
Joshua Tree


Hello friends,

Last night I started reading Louise Glück's "Proofs and Theories -  Essays on Poetry." Of the many books we own of writers writing about writing, "Proofs and Theories," a collection of  her short…

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Jan 27 2016

RABBIT HOLES

Dear Friends, 
  
In March of 2012, I wrote a song called “Rabbit Holes” because I’m interested in the perennial questions we can’t seem to answer:  How did the universe begin, what’s it made of, is there a God? I find…

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Jan 4 2016

DOING THE MATH

I'm happy to announce that this week Amazon rates "Raised in the Shadow", my life in 25 poems, as #607,825 on their best-seller list. Last week it was rated #3,225,478. For those of you who don't have a pencil and…

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Sep 16 2014

Rags and Bones to perform at California Leonard Cohen Tributes


"If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery."      
         
-Leonard Cohen



September 21 is Leonard Cohen's birthday… Read more
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Jun 28 2014

Jerry Jeff, Todd Snyder and Jerome Lawrence

“They say a neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.” – Jerome Lawrence

I would add…

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Jun 11 2014

Some Thoughts on Father's Day

Sunday, June 15 is Father's Day. My father died in 2007 at the age of 94. I was both saddened and relieved. Saddened to see him go and relieved to be released from the weight of his presence. Even though…Read more
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Feb 16 2013

Tom Waits - Last Leaf on the Tree

And if I should live to be
The last leaf upon the tree
In the spring,
Let them smile, as I do now,
At the old forsaken bough
Where I cling. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

I fight off the snow…

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Feb 15 2013

Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas

Hi Kids,

Old Ideas. Don't you love it? What beautiful ambiguity. Old ideas as in those that have been around for a while and old ideas as in those of an old man. 

Here is another septeguenarian in our series…

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