Tag Archives: Roger Housden

“One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice –”

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Kate Stover

Mary Oliver’s poem “The Journey” continues, “though the whole house / began to tremble / and you felt the old tug / at your ankles . . .” The journey she describes didn’t stop, even though it was “a wild … Continue reading →

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“What do these extraordinary lines summon in you?”

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Kate Stover

The premise of Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden is this: great poems can be dangerous. They can make you question your assumptions, change your direction, and find the courage to start over. I believe that reading … Continue reading →

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