Another Percent for Arts grant allowed me to collaborate with painter Katherine Doyle, putting words in her canvas depicting a tranquil mountain landscape. It hangs in the reception area of the Rockingham County Courthouse. She wanted both her painting and the poem to impart a sense of calm in what is, for almost everyone who […]
Archives for January 2016
Save a Moose, Save a Poet!
KSC Wins Grant to Collect NH Poets Laureate Papers January 15, 2016 Keene State archivists Brantley Palmer and Hayley Lamberson with the NH Poets Laureate Collection Rodney Obien, Keene State’s head of Special Collections and Archives, has secured a $10,000 grant from the NH State Library to archive and preserve the papers of four New […]
Barrington Community Playground
Local artist Diane St Jean illustrated my poem on a panel of the fence that surrounds our new playground. Night Swim in Scruton Pond Mars floats upside down in the midnight pond as though the lacquered sky tipped by our angle of vision let slide that one planet while the stars still depend on the […]
Poets Against the War
“A landmark anthology of original poetry that registers each author’s opposition to the war with Iraq. Its origin can be traced back to the day when Sam Hamill received an invitation from Laura Bush to a White House Symposium on “Poetry and the American Voice.” Upon opening her letter, he was overcome by a sense […]
Time Travel
As we fasten our seat belts in preparation for landing in Boston, our pilot announces that we are approximately 125 miles from Logan and will be at the gate in about 25 minutes. That 125 miles represents the distance we had traversed in any 24 hour period as we crossed the Atlantic on an eight-day […]
Sunapee Mandala
In 1985, the sculptor Emile Birch won a competition, sponsored by the League of NH Craftsmen and NH State Parks and funded by Percent for Arts, to design a sculpture celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sunapee State Park. “Sunapee Mandala” incorporates the poem I wrote in collaboration with Emile. LEAVE YOUR SHADOW HERE […]
