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Dawn Potter
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Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Donate to This Blog. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Mourning dove crooning among the pines. Apple trees glazed with pink buds. Grass overrun with violets. Air scented with plum blossoms. Temperature: 40 degrees, because not everything can be perfect. I am reading Margaret Drabble's The Middle Ground. And Anonymous's Beowulf,. Composing intros for Frost Place readings, finishing up an editing job, and considering the viability of writing a book about poetry and music.
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Dawn Potter: August 2015
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Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Donate to This Blog. Monday, August 31, 2015. Interesting information about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century northern New England. 1 When a husband died, his household's goods went into probate: every single item, no matter how modest, was listed and priced, and the inventory became a matter of public record. Numbers of these inventories still exist, and in Good Wives. No forks. None. Not even in Salem, which received shiploads of imported English...2 "So...
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Dawn Potter
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Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Donate to This Blog. Monday, August 3, 2015. And Cheez-Doodles, the beard growing, the hair dyeing, the cuddling of cats, the long walks in the woods, the coma-like sleep till 1 pm followed immediately by "let's climb Mount Katahdin! You're getting the idea, I'm sure. Suffice it say that I have returned to my "make bread every day" schedule. So, back to normal! August 3, 2015 at 8:29 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Dawn Potter
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Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Donate to This Blog. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Our household is trapped in the summer doldrums of daily thunderstorms, bionic lawn growth, a broken dryer, and towels that never, ever dry. Nonetheless, life is pleasant. One boy is eating a dozen plums and shouting out thoughts about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Partly it's the present clutter of my life that has made me realize that many of her poems center on only one or two characters. They are spaciou...
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Dawn Potter: Responses to Tu Fu, Poems VI-X
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Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Donate to This Blog. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Responses to Tu Fu, Poems VI-X. Last Thursday I had three experiences that, in their brief overlap, seem to connect to what you readers have been experiencing with this week's Tu Fu poems. I've read her books! My response was terror that the director might say something to me about this when I met him the next day. Have: you are the reader who is drawing those connections, nurturing that spark among the writers.
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Dawn Potter: July 2015
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Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Donate to This Blog. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Don't forget to add your comments to Monday's post. David has already shared some fascinating ideas about parallels to Hemingway that are certainly worth discussing. Because you probably won't hear from me for a day or so (I'll be on the road fetching Boys back to Boy Land), you have plenty of time to get your thoughts together before Sunday, when I plan to leave my own response to the poems and your comments.
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Dawn Potter: Tu Fu, Poems XI and XII
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Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Donate to This Blog. Friday, August 7, 2015. Tu Fu, Poems XI and XII. These two poems share the same title, "By the Winding River"; and when I was rereading them this week, I found myself thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets- 154 poems in the same form about more or less the same subject. How did copying out these poems affect your ability to recognize their similarities and differences? Did each poem take you into a different emotional or imaginative place?
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Dawn Potter
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Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Donate to This Blog. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Don't forget to add your comments to Monday's post. David has already shared some fascinating ideas about parallels to Hemingway that are certainly worth discussing. Because you probably won't hear from me for a day or so (I'll be on the road fetching Boys back to Boy Land), you have plenty of time to get your thoughts together before Sunday, when I plan to leave my own response to the poems and your comments.
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Dawn Potter: Books
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Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Donate to This Blog. Just released , The Vagabond's Bookshelf:. F rom Deerbrook Editions:. A dozen craft essays on poems by luminaries such as Shakespeare, Dickinson, and Hayden. The detailed yet accessible discussions offer readers, writers, and teachers new approaches for engaging adventurously with both canonical and contemporary poetry. 8211; from my introduction. My third collection of poetry. Judges' nominee for the 2014 Los Angeles Times. An anthology...
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Dawn Potter: What I'm Reading
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Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Donate to This Blog. Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore. D du Maurier, The House on the Strand. E Gaskell, Wives and Daughters. Barbara Pym, No Fond Return of Love. A Conan Doyle, Strand Magazine stories. R M Rilke, poems. Robert Lowell, poems. Christina Hutchins, Tender the Maker. Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle. Larry McMurtry, The Evening Star. The Poems of Paul Celan, trans. M. Hamburger. Afaa M. Weaver, City of Eternal Spring. Margaret Drabble, The Ice Age.
