By Jan Bosman I have been especially giddy this April, poetry month as designated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. I find myself spouting nursery rhymes at every opportunity. Want to know why? Because everybody around me knows them, too, and can fill in a line if I forget. If I say, “Little […]
By Jan Bosman Poet Naomi Shihab Nye could not have defined 2021 any better than this excerpt from her poem, “Burning the Old Year”: So much of any year is flammable: lists of vegetables, partial poems, orange swirling flame of days. So little is a stone. Haven’t we all learned that so little of any […]
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