David Graham

TODAY!

Thank you, Eric. I owe you an email, but I am slow these days….

Beautiful poems from David Graham at Verse-Virtual (www.verse-virtual.org/2025/March/g...)

So when I found his selected poems on the shelf and opened it-- the first poem I saw was "Toward a February Songbook." If that's not fate what is? Two poems about the grandeur of February! It's easy and impossible. . .

This passage jumped out at me:
And as for poetry, it's easy
And impossible--like stealing from yourself.

--Paul Violi, "Thief Tempted by the Grandeur of February"

Today it was time to re-read some Paul Violi. Facebook has many problems but one thing I like is that every day it often reminds me of something I have forgotten. Today my post from 10 years ago probably meant that I was first reading Violi's *Selected Poems* and enjoying it greatly.

"... and like you
I have stopped at a corner and suddenly
staggered with the grace of it all. . . ."

Re-reading William Stafford. This poem from his 1987 collection *An Oregon Message* struck a nerve for me then, and has continued to grow since then. It occurred to me today that this poem was published when he was about 73. I'm soon about to turn 72, and "come to the edge" of "the very old":

Thanks for reading, Amanda. Means a lot to me.

P.S. Far-flung friends-- I forgot to add that there should be a video of the event. It should be available on Zoom at the time? And then later, I think, on YouTube. O brave world!...

Here's an early notice for a poetry reading coming up. I'm honored to be part of the Writers Project at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury NY.
I just love to say I'll be appearing at a building called Dearlove . . .

I also recommend this book.

The book is from the wonderful Library of America. Introduction by Harold Bloom. And here's the first poem I turned to. . . .

I brought this beauty home today. Hundreds of Le Guin's poems that I've not read. Oh boy! Plus her translation of Lao Tzu's TAO TE CHING, about which I've heard good things. And a little lyric to whet your appetite. I think this book will live on my desk for a good while as I savor and sip. . . .

David Graham - Unlearning Dad - Live Encounters Unlearning Dad, poems by David Graham. Live Encounters Poetry & Writing February 2025.

Three new poems in the new issue of LIVE ENCOUNTERS:
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ICYMI! Fantastic conversation with @marthasilano.bsky.social on #poetry, illness, partnership, and what's to come! 🎉🎉🎉

"Writing a little bit each day is akin to leaving the faucets dripping on a cold January night; while the ideas are flowing the creative pipes won’t freeze." ~ @marthasilano.bsky.social

New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Lied” “The president, offering no evidence, insisted upon his version of the story.” “The president extemporized with a blithe disregard for established ...

“The president extemporized with a blithe disregard for established fact.”

REVIEWS — RHINO — Death Prefers the Minor Keys, by Sean Thomas Dougherty -- Reviewed by Luisa A. Igloria In his newest book Death Prefers the Minor Keys, Sean Thomas Dougherty says, “I have no memories that are not partly fiction.” It’s the first line of a poem called “Poem as Pedagogy or Prose Poem that...

"This keeping vigil, this poet’s labor of naming the many forms of our pain without giving in to “the tragedy or temptation of turning ... life into myth when it is really all piss and marrow,” rewards the reader at every turn"

Luisa A. Igloria

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A favorite poem by Lorna Crozier, one of my favorite Canadian poets. We poets in the U.S. don't pay enough attention to poets from our neighbor to the north.

"And what is more generous than a window?"

From Pat Schneider's book, The Weight of Love: bookshop.org/a/862/978094...

#poem #patschneider #poetry #books #writers

That’s one fine poem!

Another line I love:
"I love how the sky is connected to a part of us that understands something big and knows nothing about it too."

What a strange and wonderful poem

["January Sky" by David Graham]

I'm reading Alex Dimitrov's LOVE AND OTHER POEMS and wondering, not for the first time, how many strangely good poets I somehow haven't heard of till now.

"I love the January sky and knowing it will change although unlike us. . . "
--Alex Dimitrov, *Love," a fragment of his "endless poem."

New Year’s Day For Sean Thomas Dougherty   This year there were no parties.  Our friends Were sick with flu or busy caring For family sick with flu, but we’d Still stayed up late talking and drinking Prosecc…

A poem George Franklin wrote for me back in the day

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David Graham David Graham’s most recent book is The Honey of Earth (Terrapin Books 2019). Others include Stutter Monk and Second Wind. He also co-edited Local News: Poetry About Small Towns (with Tom Montag) an…

Thanks to Hayley Mitchell Haugen for including my poem in the latest issue of Sheila-Na-Gig online. I am currently circulating a manuscript called "Sounds Like Singing." This is the title poem.
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