A post in our Milestones series from past contributor Jen Hirt. A milestone among headstones—at the dog shelter where I volunteer, I have now walked my 200th dog around a pet cemetery. The pet cemetery is unnamed, just a part of the shelter grounds, but it is intended for the public, not the…
Read more » 0 CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Dick Allen. . . . . The word “mile” always evokes for me the last two lines of Robert Frost’s famous poem, “Stopping by Woods”:…
Read more » 0 CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Paul Crenshaw. When my daughters watched Disney I always wondered how long Sleeping Beauty slept. How many days did those inside the castle worry, dry-washing their hands, before going on with their lives? Did they mark milestones, like how high…
Read more » 0 CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Gregory Wolos. Also see Tweetsie Railroad and An Evening with Willie Freeze. Back in the 80s, Raymond Carver, whose work I long admired, read from his work to a rapt audience in the theater of the local university. Carver was a large man,…
Read more » 1 CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Michelle Donahue. There’s something momentous about turning twenty, about that young thrill of abandoning teenage-dom and adventuring into adulthood. The last day I was a teenager, felt like a day where I could reimagine and revise myself into…
Read more » 0 CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Cal Freeman. “We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could Though harm should come of it…” - Robert Frost, from “The Exposed Nest” Late last…
Read more » 1 CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Rachel Lyon. As a child I could stand at the window for hours, watching the tugboats on the East River: small, squat, and strong. Pushing or pulling barges ten times their size, loaded with tons of freight: scrap metal, coal, subway cars. Your…
Read more » 1 CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Paul Hostovsky. In April, National Poetry Month, I celebrated 25 years of continuous sobriety. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. A drunk is an unlovely creature. I used to work as apprentice of sorts to the wino in the park. My job, you…
Read more » 0 CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Matthew Lippman. How do we fix poetry? How do we alter the sentiment? How do we take the poem and make it loved, not by other poets, but for the everyday boy and girl, man and woman? It’s been the one driving force in my life as a poet…
Read more » 0 CommentsMy forty-ninth birthday is coming up, one shy of the big half century mark. It falls on the second day of the school year, and instead of going out for a fancy dinner I will be telling parents about the middle school math…
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