My co-editor Ruby Wilson and I are working hard in preparation for the release of Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poetry, due out from Grayson Books in late summer. We want to give…
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The poet Linda Buckmaster recently shared with me this wonderful poem. I asked her permission to pass it along to friends and family as a gift. Please know that in this holiday season and the…
WAKING IN TRUMP’S AMERICA Jan Steckel The Statue of Liberty’s arm is tired. She may have torn her rotator cuff. She still has dual citizenship, wonders if her passport is in order. She imagines lowering…
This is a difficult day. I will spend it writing. I will spend it hoping, and praying in my way, that the man just elected President of the United States might, with our help, prove…
Out of sorrow over ongoing terrorism, the latest being the attacks in Brussels, I reblog this poem by Rumi from A Year of Being Here, my old poetry project. That project is now ended. If…
Happy New Year’s, everyone! Today I concluded A Year of Being Here, my daily mindfulness poetry project, after a run of three years. I included the following poem in my final post. Perhaps you’ll enjoy…
This afternoon I was happy to read a little Mary Oliver (and Shel Silverstein, and Naomi Shihab Nye, and John Brantingham, and Nancy Paddock) as part of Outspoken Poetry. Wondering what “Outspoken Poetry” is? Think:…
This morning I stumbled onto this lovely piece published by Brevity on January 20, 2014, by a nonfiction writer named A. Papatya Bucak. She teaches in the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University. Though I’m…
I found a poem the other day—or rather, excavated it! I’d been contacted by Joanne Fedler, a writer from Australia, and we were exchanging emails about our work, and I visited her website. On a…
I’m happy to announce that A Year of Being Here now has a regular audience of at least 2000 readers and is growing by the day (via email subscription, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest). This number…
Late last night I returned from a very quick but very long trek into northern Alberta, Canada. (More on that later.) Just for fun, here’s a poem I just put together this morning based on,…
I’m excited to announce that beginning January 1, 2013, I’ll be publishing a daily “mindfulness poem,” usually by a contemporary or recent poet, at my new website, “A Year of Being Here.” Mindfulness poems are…
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