Monthly Archives: May 2014

Fanatics!

Posted on 2014/05/31 by

I’ll be at the Carolina RailHawks match tonight so I thought I’d post a poem I wrote for my fellow Triangle Soccer Fanatics a few years ago. Fanatics! Small children plug their ears When they walk past our section. Quieter … Continue reading →

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Henry Wilson

Posted on 2014/05/29 by

(Originally visited 28 April 1998.) The winter of ’98 was one of the mildest in my experience in New England. Still, this Tuesday afternoon in late April was sweetened by my absence from the office. I’d been visiting a client … Continue reading →

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James Buchanan

Posted on 2014/05/26 by

(Originally visited 19 December 1998.) The little old lady at the visitor’s center lead me astray. I was traveling back to my ancestral home in Ohio and went out of my way to collect the only presidential grave in Pennsylvania, … Continue reading →

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And everything I had to know, I heard it on my radio.

Posted on 2014/05/15 by

Before I head off to facilitate the third Thursday Living Poetry workshop, I wanted to alert my dear readers that the podcast for Tuesday’s episode of “Claudio’s SpeakEasy and Radio Theatre ~ The Literary and All Else”, featuring yours truly, has … Continue reading →

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Claudio’s SpeakEasy and Radio Theatre ~ The Literary and All Else

Posted on 2014/05/12 by

Tomorrow at 10am, Tara Lynne Groth of the Write Naked blog and I will be appearing live on “Claudio’s SpeakEasy and Radio Theatre ~ The Literary and All Else” on Carrboro’s WCOM 103.5 FM. We’ll be talking about my first poetry … Continue reading →

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Poetry Scope and Claudio’s Speakeasy

Posted on 2014/05/06 by

This Thursday the 8th of May, I’ll be reading my poem “The Future of the Appalachians” at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science’s Poetry Scope event. Those who were paying attention during April’s Poem-A-Day Challenge will remember that as … Continue reading →

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WordFest

Posted on 2014/05/01 by

Hope everyone is enjoying May Day. I am enjoying the first day in over a month that I haven’t written a poem. I’m also preparing for Wordfest this weekend where Tara Lynne Groth and I will host a roundtable discussion … Continue reading →

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