As I see it, poetry is a perpetual conversation among people, nature, and eternity. Even when more light than heat, poetry abates the darkness that bedevils human life.
Dave reads
Video is of a reading in 2019 at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA, to celebrate the publication of an anthology of poems by poets influenced by Donald Hall (1928-2018). Afterparty is my poem in it.
Chancing into a friendship with him in 2012, I enjoyed three visits at his storied Eagle Pond Farm, in Wilmot, NH plus a scant correspondence. Hall, who had been U.S. Poet Laureate in 2006-07, had so many correspondents that the USPO assigned him his own zip code! Read more >