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Kevin’s Much-Loved Poems–“What I Learned from My Mother,” “To My Mother,” and “Hooky”

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This continues the series of columns which highlight a much-loved poem and present other poems that speak to, or resonate with, that poem. This week features “What I Learned from My Mother,” by Julia Kasdorf (from Sleeping Preacher, U. Pittsburgh, 1992). A related brief poem is a poem to his mother by Robert Louis Stevenson; the third poem, also […]

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Kevin’s Much Loved Poems–“Another Dog’s Death”

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This is the sixth in a series of columns that feature a much-loved poem, and a second poem that speaks to, or resonates with, that poem. This week’s poem is “Another Dog’s Death,” written by John Updike around 1989. The Poetry Foundation states, “An acclaimed and award-winning writer of fiction, essays, and reviews, John Updike

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Kevin’s Much-Loved Poems: from As You Like It

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This is the fifth in a series of columns that feature a much-loved poem, and a second poem that speaks to, or resonates with, that poem. This week’s poem is “All the World’s a Stage” by William Shakespeare, written around 1600. The Poetry Foundation states, “While William Shakespeare’s reputation is based primarily on his plays,

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Kevin’s Much-Loved Poems: “One Art,” “Do not go gentle into that good night,” and “Driven by Love”

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This column’s primary poem is “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop, written in 1975. Although the first line of this poem is “The art of losing isn’t hard to master;” the same way Steven Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns” isn’t about clowns, this isn’t about losing things, certainly not keys. Both follow Emily Dickinson’s edict: “Tell the

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Poet with a Guitar—The Story of the C&W hit “Pancho and Lefty”

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I’m a sucker for songwriters—from Judy Collins’ eclectic selections to Dylan to Lenny Cohen to Sondheim—they’ve taught me always to ask, “Who wrote this?” When I heard the Willy Nelson / Merle Haggard version of “Pancho and Lefty,” I searched out the songwriter. I had no idea it was from Townes Van Zandt, a guy

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How to Throw a Novel Together in Twelve Years or Less

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With my novel, The Sureness of Horses, available now, twelve years after I started, in hardcover, softback, and eBook forms, I took a few minutes to look back at some of the things I’d heard about writing that helped me finish the process. I’ve divided it into Beginnings, Middles, and Endings. Beginnings: “How is writing

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