The Drift Record

Hi, All! Poetry Friday is here today! (Of course, I"m posting it Thursday around 9:00 p.m. PST, but it's already Friday somewhere...

Antonio Machado and his wife, Leonor. For the new year, here is a poem from Antonio Machado. I found it while reading Naomi Shihab Nye...

Many years ago, I was in a small workshop led by Jack Gilbert, a lovely poet who died this month at age 87 . He was already frail then...

Walt Whitman - "This is the city and I am one of the citizens...." Three weeks before...

For Poetry Friday, I offer up this lovely poem by the talented young poet (and my friend, I'm happy to say - we went through the MFA ...