As I see it, poetry is a perpetual conversation among poets, nature, and eternity. Even if more light than heat, it is sometimes the best response to the darkness that bedevils every 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 >