World Poetry Day
World Poetry Day is March 21 each year.
To honor poets and poetry for World Poetry Day this year, I made a video of me reading a poem that will appear in my forthcoming collection later this spring.
The poem is called "Always the Words" and I dedicated it to a man who was one of my teachers back in the 90s when I was earning my Masters degree at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
That man is Kim Stafford, a brilliant writer and poet who gave his students the time and space to explore our ideas through words. His father, the late William Stafford, died the summer I worked with Kim. As part of working through my grief of losing my dad in November 2021, I wrote this poem.
In it, I explore the theme of loss, as well as the complex relationship each of us has with our father and the way we see ourselves because of our dads.
Thanks for watching!
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