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Midnight Poetry

Posted on 07/19/2023 by chick

I’m only just a few pages into Billy Collins’s Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems, but I’m already a huge fan. I loved one of the poems so much that I felt compelled to go downstairs in my PJs to … Continue reading →

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Reading Report: How Short Is Too Short?

Posted on 07/17/2023 by chick

Musical Tables by Billy Collins, no grade I don’t grade collections of poetry, but I do occasionally comment on them. This one appealed to me because the poems were so short, most of them just a few lines long. It … Continue reading →

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Spring Poetry

Posted on 04/08/2011 by chick

Yesterday I saw my first robin of the spring. Seeing him made me think of one of Emily Dickinson’s poems. A Bird came down the Walk — He did not know I saw — He bit an Angleworm in halves … Continue reading →

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Dreamers of Dreams

Posted on 02/13/2009 by chick

While sorting through the things in one of our many moving boxes, I found a photocopy of a poem. I made the copy because a couple of the lines from this poem were used in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate … Continue reading →

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