There are times when I think life is like a flashlight shone at noon and poetry the shadow that it casts. Tonight is such a night.
Or maybe life is like the hoopla of Super Bowl week and poetry only the game itself.
Or life is monopoly and poetry Go.
Or life if poetry isn’t.
Or if...
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Though the verse is out of season, a reader asked me how to explain Bashō’s
“Old Pond” hokku to others. First, I suggested telling them to go find an
old p...
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