Poet Luci Shaw died last week, age 96. She would have turned 97 on Dec. 29. The news prompted an outpouring of memories, comments, shared experiences, and posts about how important she’d been in the lives of so many poets and writers.
I never met Luci, and yet it seems like she was an old friend. I never thought of her as a mentor, and yet she influenced my own writing.
I knew Luci Shaw by reading her poetry. And I read her poetry because I visited a place that knew her and that she knew.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
“You cannot extinguish,” poem by Emily Dickinson – Padraig O Tuama at Poetry Unbound.
When the Wind Flows – poem by David Whyte.
“A Hymn of Heavenly Love” by Edmund Spencer – Malcolm Guite.
“Barnfloor and Winepress,” poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
“Poem to Fit a Matchbox” by Luci Shaw – Every Day Poems.
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