poetry

a way to organize Essays

• The Februaries of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes February 2016

• Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way February 2016

• Man From Memphis April 2014

• A Requiem for Some Rogues September 2013

• As Much Power as a Word: Hard, Soft, and Smart Power August 2013

• He Had a Hat July 2012

• Man of Sorrows July 2012

• Memory and Our Mothers: Peg Boyers in Venice July 2012

• Suffering Insight: On Chase Twichell July 2012

• Fulbright Scholars: Sharing the World through Storytelling July 2012

• "you are what I wanted to see": On W. S. Merwin April 2012

• Walking Towards the Vanishing Point: On Billy Collins April 2012

• Essay on Psalm 139 April 2011

• Hannah and Her Sisters November 2009

• Mystery Pipes November 2009

• Manna not the Maid November 2009

• A Paean of Such Patience November 2009

• The Sphinx and the Dutch Treat November 2009

• Dust Storm November 2009

• Wondering as I begin to wander out under your internet gaze November 2009

• Remembering Ted Kennedy August 2009