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The first Monday of February calls for another tune from Saint Jerry. Here he is with Grisman. Enjoy! Read more
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When I started blogging again a year and a half ago, I knew from experience that posting daily would only last so long. I knew that, eventually, that cadence would need to be adjusted. After almost 600 daily posts, that time has come. My habit has been to do most of my work on ClimbingSky between 5:30 Read more
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In the rabbinical tradition, at times of calamity and great suffering, Jews are advised to read three books: The fact that the most important passages of these books were written in poetry is no accident. For it is poetry, and poetry alone, that can truly give voice to the utterances of our hearts. “How lonely sits the Read more
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. – Carl Sandburg Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on January 22, 2011. William Carlos Williams said he modeled his original form and style of poetry on the language that he heard ordinary people using in his day to day life as a doctor. One of Read more
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If I were ever to teach a class to aspiring American poets, I would have one required text: the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Hemingway famously wrote in The Green Hills of Africa that all modern American fiction comes from one book, Huckleberry Finn. A similar thing can be said for Walt Whitman and the 1855 edition of Leaves Read more
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It is the unflagging beauty of the writing, day after day, that confirms [Thoreau’s Journals] greatness among writers’ journals. ~ Alfred Kazin I have posted here before that I read and reread Thoreau’s journals the same way I read and reread W.B. Yeats and a few other poets For grounding.. Thoreau’s Journals read like prose poetry. It Read more
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Here is Blues legend Mississippi John Hurt reminding us why Acoustic Blues can be sacramental. Enjoy! Read more
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Yesterday was TwinsFest here in the Twin Cities. It’s an annual event hosted by my local nine, the Minnesota Twins, to help fans kick off the coming baseball season. Though pitchers and catchers do not officially report for Spring Training until February 11th, Twins alumni, current players, and coaches are at Target Field this weekend for meet-and-greets, interviews, photo opportunities, Read more
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Joy Harjo (b. 1951) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was the 23rd United States Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2022, the first Native American to hold that honor. Her poetry is generally characterized by: Here is one of my favorite Harjo poems, “Eagle Poem.” Enjoy! EAGLE POEM by Joy HarjoTo pray you open your Read more
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