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Dark Places (opens the original)
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…a bird combing the earth’s floor– with all the sky to play for –is taken by a predator on the make, the leftoversa tell-tale survey of feathers in the brushwood,the coinage of silence…from “Footnote,” Dolores Stewart, Poetry Ireland Review #144Welcome new subscribers! New or old, let me know you were here!Thanks to Dolores Stewart, and pertinent to her poem excerpted above, I can tell you that round about the year 1600, the good folk of county Donegal, Ireland me
Introducing the Season 4 Poets (opens the original)
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Bonus for you from friends of the podcast (opens the original)
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Hello dear Melody or Witchcraft listeners! I’m interviewing and editing all over the place right now, getting ready for Season 4 of Melody or Witchcraft to start in October. In the meantime, I thought you might enjoy a little extra poetry. Today’s post is an exchange with my friend John Gillespie’s podcast, Poetry Medicine for the Soul . He speaks with interdisciplinary artist and writer Summer J. Hart , a native of the state of Maine and an enrolled member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation.
There & Then (opens the original)
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Stars in a Field Rebecca GossI have asked for this countyto soften in youyour marrow to swimwith its flint and barleythat you learn villagesand their stilessense the shadowsof churcheswant stars in a fieldbend to its soilsblack and alluvialswallow all the coastssalt in our kissesclose a cottage doorstay with me behind itfrom Latch</em
Bonus Bit: Brenda Hillman (opens the original)
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This Bonus Bit supplements the full-length interview with poet Brenda Hillman for the Melody or Witchcraft podcast. Brenda kindly and honestly responds to my question around being part of a two-poet household. Folks mentioned: Robert Haas Forrest Gander CD Wright This completes Season 3 of Melody or Witchcraft. We’ll be back at the start of October with Season 4!! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathrynpetrucce
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