Small Reads for Brighters Days
Today is Poetry Friday, and I wish I could spend the day reading or writing poetry. But I’m going to the Mall. Yes, I capitalized Mall because it’s THE Mall, the Mall of America. I do not like malls nor shopping all that much. But today’s the last day of Spring Break, and I’m […]
OK, I’ve whined already about my bad week. But at least one good thing happened! On Wednesday, I found in my inbox an email with a sender of jplewis. I have a sister named J.P., and another sister with the last name of Lewis, and without consciously thinking about it, I expected it to be […]
I recently read Naomi Shihab Nye’s Honeybee, and I really enjoyed it. I admit that parts of it felt too preachy for me, and other parts a bit inaccessible. But so many poems from it really struck my heart. Here are just a few favorites out of the 80+ poems in this collection. The […]
My older daughter, like any self-respecting 15-year-old, does not want to spend tons of time with me. Unless her friends are all busy and she’s bored. One thing we do enjoy doing together is going to Caribou Coffee and writing poems together. We’ve only done this a few times, and one time was last […]
For Valentine’s Day, my husband gave me a CD of Billy Collins Live, a performance from 2005. He did this even though we don’t make a big deal over Valentine’s Day (our anniversary is the week before it) and we had agreed to do nothing more than cards. Oh well:>) I happily listened to […]
I love haiku. They’re short and simple. I don’t mean they’re easy. Their simplicity is deceiving. But haiku is a form I love to write and to read. This month’s column on my website is called Do You Haiku? In it, I share some published haiku I love, a few of my own haiku, […]
The challenge from Tricia this week at The Miss Rumphius Effect was to write a roundel. I didn’t have time to do this, but I also didn’t do last week’s macaronic verse challenge. So Wednesday night, while I was at a ski trip meeting with my daughter, I was sitting there trying to block […]
Yesterday, I went cross-country skiing for the first time. Although I mainly concentrated on set, push, glide, I did get to admire the gorgeous winter scenery. We’re having a snowy winter in Minnesota this year (although we need a fresh snowfall, please), and I love looking at bare trees and evergreen trees against the snow. I never get tired […]
Mary Logue is a award-winning Minnesota writer of adult novels, children’s novels, and poetry. She taught the very first class I took at the Loft Literary Center. Now she and her partner, National Book Award-winning Pete Hautman (how’s that for a powerhouse writing couple…geez!) live and sometimes write together (see their Bloodwater mystery middle grade series). Anyway, […]
I was reading a poetry collection last week called Dying Old and Dying Young, by Susan Williams, and I got a kick out of her poem, “Personals.” Personals Looking for a man who doesn’t know his sign or resting heart rate; who only runs to catch a bus; can’t tell sushi from raw fish. Thinks […]
