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“What I think of all the time is how to have more patience, and a wilder will – how to see better, and write better.”

A review of “A Poetry Handbook” in 100 words by Catherine Stover

A recent program about Mary Oliver on PBS reminded me of why I love her Poetry Handbook so much. It set a new standard for textbooks when it was published in 1994. It’s less like a lecture and … Read More

“For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”

The poet Mary Oliver died this week, and I’m convinced that if we all would take a break to read her poetry, we would be strengthened by it. The level of anger – about the shut-down, the bickering, the brutal weather – is remarkably high right now. Mary Oliver believed … Read More

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“What I think of all the time is how to have more patience, and a wilder will – how to see better, and write better.”

A review of “A Poetry Handbook” in 100 words by Catherine Stover

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