As I see it, poetry is a conversation among people, nature, and posterity. Even when more light than heat, poetry lessens the darkness that bedevils humanity.
Dave reads
Video below is from a reading in 2019 at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA, which celebrated publication of an anthology of poems by poets influenced by Donald Hall (1928-2018). Afterparty is my poem in it.
Between 2012 and 2018, I enjoyed an acquaintance with Hall, who had been U.S. Poet Laureate in 2006-07. He had so many correspondents that the Post Office assigned him his own zip code! Read more >