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Author Archives: mjhenry
Mark Doty, Elegies, and Sunflowers
Happy Friday! And welcome to your intermittent dose of Doty, Mark Doty. This poem, from Atlantis (1995), is gorgeous and wonderfully simple. Yet its simplicity belies a deeper suggestion, which … Continue reading
The Storytelling Animal
I just finished this really interesting book, The Storytelling Animal, written by Jonathan Gottschall, whose overarching question is this: why do humans tell stories? I find this question intriguing, because: … Continue reading
Retreat Reflections
I’ve just returned from our annual retreat up in Grand Lake, where I spent the week teaching and writing with 38 other like-minded writers at a place called Shadowcliff Lodge. … Continue reading
Thomas Lux Observation #2: He likes strange objects that are often very heavy.
In addition to animals hopping, crawling, and flying all over the place, Lux’spoems often include heavy objects—big things, things with mass, and weight, as if one of the truths in … Continue reading
About the Peculiarities of Lux: Three Observations
I offer up to you three observations, over the course of next few days, about our next Writer’s Studio guest: poet Thomas Lux. Observation #1: Low culture transcends into high—often … Continue reading
Poetry is a Contact Sport: Getting to Know Seth Brady Tucker
When I recently met Seth Brady Tucker, our newest poetry instructor, at Fluid Coffee Bar, he showed up with a bunch of stitches in his lip. Still, though, he could … Continue reading
Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition
I’m fresh off one of the high points of my life: watching Ballet Nouveau Colorado perform “Intersection,” a full-length narrative ballet based on 13 poems I wrote in collaboration with … Continue reading
Sass + Big Heart = Mary Karr
I’ve been reading up on Mary Karr–awesome poet and memoirist, author of the classic Liar’s Club and the recent best-selling follow up, Lit–since I’m teaching a reading-as-a-writer workshop on her, … Continue reading
