Dharma by Billy Collins
The Way We Said Goodbye by Ted Kooser
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See June 3 discussion for the first three poems. With only half an hour of zoom, and small participation, the reading aloud and sharing of these poems is a small breath of delight.
Summer Cottage : delightful poem, drawing out the senses, makes you feel at the seaside.
Paired with Jane Freilicher painting, "View over Meaux" -- which is in NE France,not by the sea.
However, Jane (1924-2014) was closely associated with the NY School of poets, such as John Ashbury, Frank O'Hara (who has many Jane poems), Kenneth Koch.
We enjoyed Billy Collins sense of humor... how he is having a lot of fun, gently mocking the "master". Suzanne mentioned the problem of poets writing too much, and many of the poems are not worth keeping.
For the Kooser, we discussed the double meaning of "wasting" -- the end of something, but also,
the sense of what a waste of time, sharing an ice cream cone with a dog... except, without saying so,
it is the end for this old dog, all the sweetness of the years spent with her, "slowly disappears".
Beauty elegy.
There was a bit of time at the end, so I shared Jim Jordan's Villanelle Why the Light is Different in Autumnthat appeared in 2020 Le Mot Juste anthology.
Robin's note for the follow-up email.
June 18
A Poetry Reading At West Point by William Matthews (One of Suzanne Olson's "favorites")
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See June 3 discussion for the first three poems. With only half an hour of zoom, and small participation, the reading aloud and sharing of these poems is a small breath of delight.
Summer Cottage : delightful poem, drawing out the senses, makes you feel at the seaside.
Paired with Jane Freilicher painting, "View over Meaux" -- which is in NE France,not by the sea.
However, Jane (1924-2014) was closely associated with the NY School of poets, such as John Ashbury, Frank O'Hara (who has many Jane poems), Kenneth Koch.
We enjoyed Billy Collins sense of humor... how he is having a lot of fun, gently mocking the "master". Suzanne mentioned the problem of poets writing too much, and many of the poems are not worth keeping.
For the Kooser, we discussed the double meaning of "wasting" -- the end of something, but also,
the sense of what a waste of time, sharing an ice cream cone with a dog... except, without saying so,
it is the end for this old dog, all the sweetness of the years spent with her, "slowly disappears".
Beauty elegy.
There was a bit of time at the end, so I shared Jim Jordan's Villanelle Why the Light is Different in Autumnthat appeared in 2020 Le Mot Juste anthology.
Robin's note for the follow-up email.
**Thank you for sending the poem that was cut short as you read it...I had hoped you would.And the link to the musical (and cultural) adaptation to M Darwish’s poem was amazing! I like when poems stir memories and/or sensations in and around me, but I also enjoy experiencing how others interpret them. I can’t say that I have a favorite book of poetry or even a favorite author. For me, poetry has come through the books and music (CDs) that I’ve collected because of the art on or within.Thanks again for putting this class together
June 18
No Man is an Island by John Donne
Breathe by Lynn Ungar (
Spiderweb - Kay Ryan - One of Suzanne Olson's "favorites")
And someone wrote it down by Christian Wiman (for 6/17 O Pen discussion)
[1] In the Seneca language, ö is used to represent [ɔ̃], a back mid rounded nasalized vowel. In Swedish, the letter ö is also used as the one-letter word for an island, which is not to be mixed with the actual letter. Ö in this sense is also a Swedish-language surname. The noun, å means creek, (small river, stream).
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