Tag: anniversary
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* arguing & anniversarying
The photo above is of my work desk at the Cincinnati Review office. The moon painting featured here was one of the first my wife worked on during our time living in Cincinnati. Her artwork inspires me, which is one of the reasons why it is featured on the covers of four of my chapbooks…
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* four years of the influence
This week marks the four year anniversary of The Friday Influence. So, as is customary: Yay! Sharing poems here continues to be a source of delight and honesty. I say honesty because putting into words some of the journey in understanding a poem, of considering and living with a poem, requires reflection and persistence. Poems…
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* three years of the influence
This weekend marks the 3 year anniversary of this blog. Yay! This week’s poem – “A Flock of Sheep Near the Airport” by Yehuda Amichai – takes on the idea of attention in a way that ties into the spirit in which I started the blog. The first stanza evokes the kind of conflicted feelings…
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* two years of the influence
The two year anniversary of the Influence is here and I must admit: it snuck up on me. I had all these great ideas about what to do (party hats! balloons! poems recited inside of a cake!), but then life kinda kept happening. As life happened, so did the Influence, though, which is the goal…
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