Bees, why bees, Dr. B? You’ve given us shows of moles and bats and hats and coots, roosters, birds, foxes, bears, butterflies, and even worms! How low can you go? You’ve had us walking, on our knees, falling from the … Continue reading →

To the tunes of “Ode to Joy” to “Wake Up Little Susie” to wisdom from “Hair: HAVE THOREAU WILL TRAVEL, or, Thoreau’s Joy Has Legs– Aesthetic Correctness, Being Bossed by Poet Life Coaches: Push Ups for You! On Your Knees! … Continue reading →

Poetry of Dean Young, Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson, James Dickey, Lewis Carroll, Lois Entwistle, Kahill Gibran, Oprah Winfrey, Tony Hoagland, Charles Wright, Shakespeare, Thoreau, William Blake, Thomas Hardy, Carrell Hawkins, Jack Gilbert, John Fuller, Gerald Stern, Linda Gregg, Mary Oliver, … Continue reading →

Poems and news of one’s inner wild, from your host’s experience of being delicious to a bear (“Night Hunger, Wild Hunger”) and inner lion DNA, to Galway Kinnel’s “The Bear,” and more, Carl Sandburg’s “Wilderness,” and Gary Snyder, “How Poetry … Continue reading →

Wait, Dr. B—I can see where this is going with Whitman clearly a rocker but with Tennyson and Dickinson, I think you’re kind of stretching it, no? and Eliot? With all due respect ma’am you may be out there just … Continue reading →

homage and quaff to Sir Peter Shaffer, Charles Wright, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Mary Oliver, James Wright, Yeats, Chuck Tripi, notes of e.e. cummings, Dylan Thomas, Shakespeare, Homer, and Dave Barry. It’s my little homage—Lettice … Continue reading →

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. … Continue reading →

Our show begins with a poem on a hat left by a member of the Pacific Grove (Ad Hoc) Poetry Committee at residence of truly yours, Poet in Residence for said city; Susie Joyce made it into a song, and … Continue reading →

(Derek Walcott) : SUMMER POEMS TO COOL YOU DOWN, AND SPEAKING OF HOT JULY, TEXAS POETRY, featuring professor poets Paul Riffin and Wendy Barker, with poems and thoughts by Ruth Stone, Willis Barnstone, Mark Doty, Naomi Shahib Nye, Mark Bibbins … Continue reading →

—leave it to poetry to figure it out: David Whyte, Gratitude.org, Gratitude Is the New Old Happiness, and Poetry Expressing Gratitude for All We Can Say, two shows of gratitude including Albert Goldfarth’s “Library,” a trailer of Bruce Beasley, C.K. … Continue reading →