We held a seventh session on Thursday, June 6, at Graffiti's Bistro in Greensboro. We enjoyed lunch together as well as poems by Don Chiasson and Adam Zagajewski on "the uses of history." Martha's poem "Comes the Dawn" provided a strong complement to Zagajewski's poem about the documentary Shoah.
Our annual Shepherd's Center Poetry Group online anthology will appear again this year, most likely in September or October.
I recently attended a reading by Sharon Olds, a poet whose work we have enjoyed in the past ("I Go Back to 1937" and others) and found her a compelling reader as well as a very gracious person. We will read more of her work in the Winter 2014 term.
Below are some books on poets and the craft of poetry which you may find of interest:
Jane Hirschfield, Nine Gates
Davidson and Fraser, Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches (2009)
Ted Kooser, The Poetry Home Repair Manual (2007)
Bill Moyers, Fooling with Words
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