Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Jun 6, 2019
Jan 1, 2019
New Year's Day
"i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twenty-six and thirty-six
even thirty-six but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me"
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twenty-six and thirty-six
even thirty-six but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me"
- Lucille Clifton
Nov 17, 2018
Nov 9, 2018
November 2018
November for Beginners
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
Snow would be the easy
way out—that softening
sky like a sigh of relief
at finally being allowed
to yield. No dice.
We stack twigs for burning
in glistening patches
but the rain won’t give.
So we wait, breeding
mood, making music
of decline. We sit down
in the smell of the past
and rise in a light
that is already leaving.
We ache in secret,
memorizing
a gloomy line
or two of German.
When spring comes
we promise to act
the fool. Pour,
rain! Sail, wind,
with your cargo of zithers!
November 1981
From Poetry
Sep 14, 2018
Jun 1, 2018
May 23, 2018
SBPL Coffee Break - Vanessa Christman (Episode 2)
This week we were joined by Vanessa Christman, Assistant Director of the Santa Barbara Public Library System.
Mentioned In This Episode:
Poetry at the Library:
santabarbaraca.evanced.info/signup/Even…=2018/05/06
Trail Talk:
santabarbaraca.evanced.info/signup/Even…=2018/05/17
Black Panther:
santabarbaraca.evanced.info/signup/Even…=2018/05/17
Italy Travel:
www.hoopladigital.com/search?page=1&…ope=Everything
Ecco Guide to Italian WIne:
www.hoopladigital.com/title/11918229
My Italian Bulldozer:
blackgold.overdrive.com/media/2989427
Basque Restaurants Bakersfield:
www.visitbakersfield.com/visitors/res…ield-basque/
Last Gentleman & Second Coming (Hoopla):
www.hoopladigital.com/title/11560220
Second Coming:
www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/t…1033.0.0.1&pos=6
Lucy Knisley:
www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/s…ge=0&searchid=10
French Milk:
www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/t…1033.0.0.1&pos=8
You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons:
www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/t…1033.0.0.1&pos=1
What are your picks?
May 21, 2018
Apr 1, 2018
Feb 1, 2018
Nov 1, 2017
Jan 7, 2017
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