Tag: dickinson

• Two Poems Stuck In My Head

  Forgive me, it’s been over 6 weeks since i sat down and tried to think in verse.  Forget about the actual work of putting it on paper and tinkering.  I could blame all the obligations–work, kid’s stuff, chores, a wedding, a vacation, fiction, and this damned blog–but I don’t do excuses with writing. It’s like […]

  JunkChuck

  August 21, 2014

  Commentary, Poetry

  colonization, dickinson, fly buzz died, literature, mary oliver, mental illness, poem, poetry

• National Poetry Month: Whitman Weekend & Boys’ Night Out

  I get a kick out of thinking of wild-minded Walt Whitman and the decidedly staid Emily Dickinson as something between Adam and Eve and a prism.  There was American poetry before, and American poetry after the pair–but almost everything before led to them and everything after sprung from them, through them, and what didn’t was […]

  JunkChuck

  April 18, 2014

  Uncategorized

  beer, boys, brotherhood, dickinson, grand teton, grizzly, leaves of grass, moran, pacific creek, poetry, whitman, wyoming