Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Poets and Poems: Michael Favala Goldman and "Destinations"


Families who disapprove of a choice of spouse. War refugees debating what to take with them. A boy navigating his parents’ divorce. A lost friendship. A child born with a physical impairment. A romance going awry. The physical pians that often accompany emotional ones. The special dinner that grows cold. Trying to help a friend with dementia. A father suffering a brain tumor.  

This is the world of Destinations: Poems, the ninth poetry collection by Michael Favala Goldman. It’s a world of brokenness and people managing through it, sometimes well and sometimes not. 


To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.


Some Tuesday Readings

 

New Year Prayer – poem by David Whyte.

 

Los Angeles – poem by Alex Dimitrov.

 

Wombwell Rainbow Book Interviews: Paul Robert Mullen – Paul Brookes.

 

Exodus – poem by Megan Merchant at Every Day Poems.

 

“Never Enough of Living,” poem by Leonie Adams – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

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