Ten-thousand voices . . .

It's Odin's day . . . and the mailbox has a few leftovers from that past two days. I've been editing and writing some of my own poems, and reading . . . and reading . . .

A poem [any art form expressed] is a discovery. It is not the record of something I already know. Rather, it is the record of finding. The acknowledgment of the full scope of being is why good art thrills. Acknowledging the fullness of things is our human task. – Jane Hirshfield

The poet Donald Hall was born on this date in 1928 Hamden, Connecticut

It's the 139th anniversary of Maxwell Perkins' birth. Born in1884 New York City, Perkins was perhaps the most famous American editor. he discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe among many others.

Headlines are saying that “Congress” is in crisis. But that construction obscures the true story: the Republicans are in crisis, and they are taking the country down with them. – Heather Cox Richardson

My blood is alive with many voices

telling me I am made of longing. – Rilke

from “An hour is not a house”

Some want quiet as others want bread.

Some want sleep.

My eyes went

to the window,

as a cat or dog left alone does. – Jane Hirshfield, Poetry (April 2013)