I found a perfect, if personal, antidote for the discomfort of sitting in a crammed airplane seat for an eight-hour overseas flight. And that’s to bring along a book of poetry recommended by a friend, and being enraptured by the beautiful poems it contained.
Joseph Bottum is an essayist, critic, fiction writer, scholar, editor, and apparent master of what’s known as the Amazon Single, a short story or essay published as a standalone work (his Dakota Christmas reached #1 on the Amazon e-book bestseller list). He’s also a poet, with several published works, including Spending the Winter (2022), which the friend recommended and which I read on my overseas flight.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
To the Autumn Birches – poem by Adam Sedia at Society of Classical Poets.
The lights – artwork by Sonja Benskin Mesher.
Text & Image: Interview with Ellen Kombiyil – Tweetspeak Poetry.
“Spring and Fall,” poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Matthew Arnold, ‘Requiescat’ (1853) – Adam Roberts at Adam’s Notebook.
Portrait of a Lady – poem by William Carlos Williams at Every Day Poems.
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