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Rebecca Elson's "Myth"
Thoughts on five years of writing about poems.
Jun 29
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Devin Kelly
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W.S. Merwin's "Ash"
Thoughts on remembering.
Jun 22
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Devin Kelly
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Matthew Nienow's "For What It's Worth"
Thoughts on showing up.
Jun 15
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Devin Kelly
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Kiki Petrosino's "To Think of Italy While Climbing the Saunders-Monticello Trail"
Thoughts on mountains.
Jun 8
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Devin Kelly
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Philip Levine's "Today and Two Thousand Years from Now"
Thoughts on uselessness.
Jun 1
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Devin Kelly
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May 2025
Nomi Stone's "Waiting for Happiness"
Thoughts on happiness.
May 25
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Devin Kelly
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Etheridge Knight's "The Sun Came"
Thoughts on the lateness of sunsets.
May 18
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Devin Kelly
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Marie Howe's "Hurry"
Thoughts on the word "and."
May 11
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Devin Kelly
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Maurice Manning's "XXXV" (from "Bucolics")
Thoughts on devotion.
May 4
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Devin Kelly
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April 2025
A Bouquet of Poems, Part 2
Thoughts on the many poems by the wonderful poets in the second section of a class I have been teaching.
Apr 27
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Devin Kelly
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Matthew Rohrer's "There Is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier"
Thoughts on loneliness, of all things.
Apr 20
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Devin Kelly
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Erin Dorney's "Day 16"
Thoughts on seeing.
Apr 13
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Devin Kelly
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