On New Year’s Day I Want a Poem
It Could Be Written by Someone Else. Mary Oliver or Naomi Shihab Nye or You. On New Year’s Day I want a poem that says 2020 is a different year fr...
Category: holidays
The Unstory: Holiday Letters Redux
Holiday Letters Arrive Each Year: Plot Summaries without any plot: missing the story but full of a sort of ordinary detail: keeping busy (Of Course We Are Stil...
After Alvin Ailey on the First Night of Chanukah
We all went to Iguana Bar on 54th Street big group of us happy from seeing Ailey. We went for margueritas in the ladies room downstairs large black woman in w...
Poinsettias and Christmas and Jews
I wrote this poem a while ago. My friend Julie Rockefeller reposted it today so I thought I would too. Only a few words are different. Jews are often Adamant a...
We are Going to Ithaca Today to Peter’s Family
Peter’s Armenian Family Gets Together once a year in different houses we all take turns 100 years they’ve been meeting since they came to America af...