I’ve had two love affairs for as long as I can remember, with poetry and with hats. Mother Goose rhymes and rain bonnets, jump rope songs and sun caps, lullabies and snuggly warm beanies. For a long time, I’ve been wanting to write a poem about hats, and then this fall I took Robert Pinsky’s “The … 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Hat
In ordinary life, it’s often difficult to know for certain if our manners are appropriate. There’s tension and different rules for behavior for different sexes, races, generations, social classes, and so forth. During the 1950s it was common and proper for men to open doors for women. But today, they are unsure. If she’s older, … God Said Yes To Me
I have always known that one day I would take this path though yesterday I did not know it would be today. — Arriwara no Naribari (Japan, eleventh century) (p. vii) Understand that you can have in your writing no qualities which you do not honestly entertain in yourself. Understand that you cannot keep out … How do I write songs? Read Steve Kowitt’s In the Palm of Your Hand.