Coming Soon, Jan 2020

There’s Something About Mary…and Emily.

On January 17th of 2020 it will be one year since Mary Oliver passed. She was the poet who lived “in the house near the corner, which, (she) named, Gratitude.”

Brilliant and highly accessible, Mary Oliver won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. For a Blog committed to finding the natural world in nearby and unconventional places, often as a solitary observer, she is nothing short of a muse. She would likely say that her precursor, Dickinson, was one of her’s. A tribute to the power of words and a dialogue imagined between two poets born a century apart. Yes, there will be bees, grasshoppers, foxes, sparrows and waking with a “thirst for goodness I do not have.”

Mary and Emily

Published by Vincent Hostak

I am a father, writer, and podcaster living along the Front Range, Colorado. My poetry has appeared in Sonder Midwest, Tejascovido, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Texas Poetry Assignment and the 2022-23 print anthology, Lone Star Poetry: Championing Texas Verse, Community, and Hunger Relief. I produce The Phantom Script (a poetry podcast) and Crossings-the Refugee Experience in America Podcast. https://www.kallistogaiapress.org/product/lone-star-poetry-championing-verse-community-and-hunger-relief/

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