Sitemap - 2023 - The Beauty of Things

Deck the Halls and Deckled Edges

On Pageants and Pantoums

Attending to Our Fires

"The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman"

Mother of Homecomings

Things Fall Apart: The Opioid Crisis and Its Impact on Special Education

Today We Say Grace

"Tell me about a complicated man..."

On the Power and Perils of Emotional Poetry

"A wordless shape-note singing..."

The Filipino Poetic Tradition

"Silence the pianos and with muffled drum..."

“the sacrament of the present moment”

"This luscious and impeccable fruit of life..."

"from all those epistles of air and unreachable distance..."

"That is no country for old men..."

like a perne in a gyre...

"a window and a mirror are the same..."

"the fire that writhes inside..."

“by any other name…”

“the way its waters went”

The Death Leisure

“in the summer heaven godlike…”

Forty-nine and feeling fine...

Poetry at the Mending Wall

The actual Hyla Brook

To the beautiful and faithful…

Memorization, or "to know by heart..."

The Prayer and Blessing Mixtape

The Poetry Code

A vacation, desperate and incongruous

"A mother is..."

Four Minutes

Camp Mommy: A Summer Program for Feral Children

American Independence and Artificial Intelligence

Ecstasy, Epiphany and Epilepsy

...the other deepest thing

On the road…

Bring forth new life!

Take your kids to the ballet, darn it!

Mixtapes Will Save Poetry

Lacrimae Rerum

The Musical Lives of 4th Graders

The Language of Compromise

How to Read a Long, Complicated Novel Very Quickly

As gold gives way...

“Ready or not…”

"So this is Nebraska..."

The True Story of a Painless Birth

10 Substacks to Try

And yet Easter still comes

“It’s the hardest job there is…”

On Contests

It's about Time...

On Doubt and Being Published

Quinquagesima

Big News, Book Help

Gratitude, Fortune and Boldness

The Plan