Monthly Archives: March 2005

I’m listening to a fabulous conversation between Robert Bly and Donald Hall, the debut of Garrison Keillor’s “Literary Friendships” series. I know these two, because they were the pet luminaries on the Bennington campus when I did my MFA there. … Continue reading →

W. S. Merwin in 1997 answered a fan letter I had written him. Among other things, he wrote this: Read, read. Jarrell said “read at random”. It will stop being random. I have carried this advice with me ever since, … Continue reading →

City Auditor Dennis Gallagher is a legendary Denver politician and a scholar of Latin and Greek. Each year he serves as Master of Ceremonies for a conference at Regis University on the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Yesterday Gallagher gave … Continue reading →

With 12 days remaining before our trip to France, this morning I was greeted by this construction sign at Denver’s leading slacker coffee shop, Paris on the Platte, the only place around where I can enjoy my liturgical weekly Camel. … Continue reading →

Billy Collins read poems and talked about poetry tonight at Denver University. Gates Hall, which holds 900 people, was nearly full, and the former U.S. Poet Laureate did not disapoint. He read a mix of funny and serious poems, which … Continue reading →

I followed an Instapundit link to an item about bloggers declaring war on the Times of India. It included a comment by Rush Limbaugh, but when I clicked on his name, my e-mail program whipped up a message to freedomcome@yahoo.com … Continue reading →

Riding my Segway in the Denver St. Patrick’s Day Parade this morning was unbelievably fun. Everyone waved, as if I were a legal entry, and I glided by about 20 of Denver’s finest without their thinking to enforce city ordinances … Continue reading →

In the middle of the night, after checking out a few of the “656 new items” that Bloglines has caught in its net for me, comes the time when I want to write something. This is a fraught moment, because … Continue reading →

Lunch today at Legal Seafoods in Warwick, R.I., with former Business Editor of The Providence Journal, Joe Goodrich, my old boss, a true Yankee gentleman of the old school. My favorite comment of his came when I asked if he … Continue reading →

As I stepped into the library of the Providence Journal this morning, I recognized a face from nearly 25 years ago. It was Brian Beaulieu, a copy editor who’s been working at the Journal ever since I left for Wyoming … Continue reading →