POEMS FOR NEPHEWS

We are given writing exercises, fifteen books to read, six poems a month to submit to our mentor, and engage in online discussions/workshops regarding various poetic craft issues. It's a two year program and one of the top ... funeral, I'll catch my nieces and nephews huddled together talking about something I got reprimanded for talking about when I was their age. I'll be the pious Uncle of Profundity voicing sage sentiments— “Hijos. Breadcrumbs are the Lord's dandruff. ...

Then the next night, Ray, Mom, all three of my brothers, two of our four children, various spouse-equivalents, nieces and nephews, friends, and a pack of doggie cousins, all converged at the Row for a potluck that would have made Martha ... I will keep toiling over poems because poetry is beautiful and graceful and because, as Native Americans once believed, words have the power to make things happen. I will leave my walls ecru. And, when I start to slip back into my ...

I also became involved with the world of storytelling – so poetry, drama, stories – and speaking poetry, feeling the sounds and rhythms, aiming to bring the images in poems and stories to life – that has been my work for twenty years. .... With Magnus Fin, because the hero is a boy, I read parts to my nephews. We were on North Ronaldsay – what a place! Seals everywhere. I told parts of the story to a few lads. I knew the story worked when they started to speak about what ...