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ProfitSense with Bill McDermottSharon Foley, The Interiors Studio, and Andrew Henry, Childs CompanySharon Foley, The Interiors Studio, and Andrew Henry, Childs Company (ProfitSense with Bill McDermott, Episode 25) Sharon Foley, Director of Interior Design for The Interiors Studio, and Andrew Henry, Partner at Childs Company, were host Bill McDermott's guests on this edition of ProfitSense. They discussed finding the right professional for the support business owners need [...]2021-09-2139 min
Journey Daily with a Compelling PoemGeologistNature can help soothe many wounds. Sharon Foley’s poems have received honors and awards from Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Wisconsin Writers Association and The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Common Ground Review, White Pelican Review, Bellowing Ark and The Aurorean. Her first collection of poetry, What is Endured, was published by Finishing Line Press 2017. She lives in Milwaukee.2020-03-1605 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemLyric, Sometimes QuietMusic and song can be found everywhere. Ralph Stevens lives and writes on Little Cranberry Island on the coast of Maine, in the small community of Islesford, a beautiful and congenial place for the reading and writing of poetry. He is retired after a long career as an English professor, most recently on the faculty of Coppin State University in Baltimore. His two poetry collections are At Bunker Cove from Moon Pie Press and Things Haven’t Been the Same from Finishing Line Press. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and has poems in a variety of pu...2020-03-1304 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemAmaryllisBrilliant Amaryllis-red can help brighten the gray landscape of winter. Connie Wanek is the author of four books of poetry and one book of short prose. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, and Missouri Review. She co-edited, with Joyce Sutphen and Thom Tammaro a comprehensive historical anthology of Minnesota women poets, called To Sing Along the Way (New Rivers Press, 2006) Her many awards include the Willow Poetry Prize, the Jane Kenyon Poetry prize and Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States (2004-2006) named...2020-03-1205 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemBottled WaterThe simplest of things can become quite complicated! Kim Dower, City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (October 2016 – October 2018), has published four collections of poetry, all with Red Hen Press: Air Kissing on Mars, described by the Los Angeles Times as, “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache,” Slice of Moon, called “unexpected and sublime,” by “O” magazine, Last Train to the Missing Planet, “poems that speak about the grey space between tragedy and tenderness, memory and loss, fragility and perseverance,” said Richard Blanco, and Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave, which Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick, calls exuber...2020-03-1106 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemI Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom,Our mothers will always be with us. Kim Dower, City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (October 2016 – October 2018), has published four collections of poetry, all with Red Hen Press: Air Kissing on Mars, described by the Los Angeles Times as, “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache,” Slice of Moon, called “unexpected and sublime,” by “O” magazine, Last Train to the Missing Planet, “poems that speak about the grey space between tragedy and tenderness, memory and loss, fragility and perseverance,” said Richard Blanco, and Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave, which Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick, calls exuberant...2020-03-1006 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemAbstractStories can survive years beyond the people who record them. Connie Wanek is the author of four books of poetry and one book of short prose. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, and Missouri Review. She co-edited, with Joyce Sutphen and Thom Tammaro a comprehensive historical anthology of Minnesota women poets, called To Sing Along the Way (New Rivers Press, 2006) Her many awards include the Willow Poetry Prize, the Jane Kenyon Poetry prize and Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States (2004-2006) named...2020-03-0907 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemWe've Had This Conversation BeforeLife is a series of conversations covering the important and mundane. A faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Joseph Mills holds holds the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities and was honored with a 2017 UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has degrees in literature from the University of Chicago (B.A.), the University of New Mexico (M.A.), and the University of California-Davis (Ph.D). His work includes poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism. He has published six volumes of poetry with Press 53: Exit, pursued by a bear...2020-03-0605 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemHello Quiet Protected NightDon't be afraid of the wide world! Matthew Zapruder (1967) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. He is the author of four collections of poetry, his first book, American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002) won the Tupelo Press Editor’s Prize and his second collection, The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, the...2020-03-0506 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemA World of SingersMusic can be heard everywhere if we would simply listen. Ralph Stevens lives and writes on Little Cranberry Island on the coast of Maine, in the small community of Islesford, a beautiful and congenial place for the reading and writing of poetry. He is retired after a long career as an English professor, most recently on the faculty of Coppin State University in Baltimore. His two poetry collections are At Bunker Cove from Moon Pie Press and Things Haven’t Been the same from Finishing Line Press. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and has poems in a...2020-03-0405 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemWhat I Can't Tell My SonAs children grow up and move away, the change can be painful. Maria Mazziotti Gillan is winner of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP, the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book, All That Lies Between Us. She is the Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, editor of the Paterson Literary Review, and director of the creative writing program/professor of English at Binghamton University-SUNY. She has published 23 books, including What Blooms in Winter (NYQ B...2020-03-0306 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemHow You KnowKnowing if what you feel is love or not is complicated. A faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Joseph Mills holds the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities and was honored with a 2017 UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has degrees in literature from the University of Chicago (BA), the University of New Mexico (MA), and the University of California-Davis (PhD). His work includes poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism. He has published six volumes of poetry with Press 53: Exit, pursued by a bear; This Miraculous Tur...2020-03-0206 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemWaking up My DaughterThe faces of our past are reflected in the next generation. Greg Kosmicki is a poet and retired social worker and is the author of four books and eight chapbooks of poetry and his poems have appeared in numerous prestigious magazines and journals. His most recent collection of selected poems, Leaving Things Unfinished: Forty-some Years of Poems is forthcoming in 2020 from MWPH in Fairwater, WI, Tom Montag editor. He received artist’s fellowships from the Nebraska Arts council in 2000 and 2006 and two of his poems were featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He founded The Backwa...2020-02-2803 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemMilltown ResurectionMemories with lifelong friends repopulates the old town. Larry Smith graduated from Muskingum College in Ohio and earned an MA and PhD at Kent State University He taught at Firelands College-Bowling Green State University and in 1980 he was a Fulbright lecturer in American Literature in Sicily. He is the author of eight books of poetry, two books of memoirs, six books of fiction, two literary biographies of authors Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Patchen, and two books of translations from the Chinese with co-translator Mei Hui Huang. His poetry has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Alma...2020-02-2705 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemGoing to the World's Fair, 1964Enjoy time on the Midway since life is unpredictable. Maria Mazziotti Gillan is winner of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP, the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book, All That Lies Between Us. She is the Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, editor of the Paterson Literary Review, and director of the creative writing program/professor of English at Binghamton University-SUNY. She has published 23 books, including What Blooms in Winter (NYQ Books, 2016) and Paterson Li...2020-02-2607 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemConnectionsConnections are not always easy to find. Matt Mason is the Nebraska State Poet and Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective. He runs poetry programming for the State Department, working in Nepal, Romania, Botswana and Belarus. Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize for his poem “Notes For My Daughter Against Chasing Storms” and his work can be found in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry. The author of Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (The Backwaters Press, 2006) and The Baby That Ate Cincinnati (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2...2020-02-2505 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemNew BreathWe must trust and accept vulnerability to fully breathe. Larry Smith graduated from Muskingum College and earned an MA and PhD at Kent State University He taught at Firelands College-Bowling Green State University and In 1980 was a Fulbright lecturer in American Literature in Sicily. He is the author of eight books of poetry, two books of memoirs, six books of fiction, two literary biographies of authors Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Patchen, and two books of translations from the Chinese with co-translator Mei Hui Huang. His poetry has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. Two of h...2020-02-2408 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemIn the KitchenFlowers in his wife's long hair is mesmerizing. Steve Kronen's collections are Homage to Mistress Oppenheimer (Eyewear), Splendor (BOA), and Empirical Evidence (University of Georgia Press). His work has appeared widely in the US and the UK. His many awards include an NEA, three Florida Individual Artist fellowships, the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the James Boatwright Poetry Prize from Shenandoah magazine, and fellowships from Bread Loaf, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. He received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Steve works as a librarian in Miami where he lives with his wif...2020-02-2104 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemWarblerEach life is precious no matter how small. Twyla M. Hansen served a five-year term as Nebraska State Poet from 2013 to 2018, is a co-director of the website Poetry from the Plains: A Nebraska Perspective, and has conducted readings and creative writing workshops through Humanities Nebraska since 1993. Her newest book of poetry, Rock • Tree • Bird (The Backwaters Press 2017), won both the 2018 WILLA Literary Award for Poetry from Women Writing the West and the 2018 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry from the Nebraska Center for the Book. She has six previous books of poetry, and her writing is published in the...2020-02-2005 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemKablooey is the Sound You'll HearA mother never wants to hear an explosion inside the house. Debra Marquart is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University and Iowa’s Poet Laureate. Marquart is the author of six books including an environmental memoir of place, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere a collection of poems, Small Buried Things: Poem, and a short story collection, The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories. Marquart’s work has been featured on NPR and the BBC and has received over 50 grants and awards including an NEA Fellowship, a PEN...2020-02-1908 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemEven on a Sunday DriveA speeding car can bring a greater death any day. Debra Marquart is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University and Iowa’s Poet Laureate. A memoirist, poet, and performing musician, Marquart is the author of six books including an environmental memoir of place, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere and a collection of poems, Small Buried Things: Poems. Marquart’s short story collection, The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories drew on her experiences as a former road musician. A singer/songwriter, she continues to perform solo and...2020-02-1807 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemCelebrate This KansasGive praise to our land and our ancestors. Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ph.D., the 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate is the author of 23 books, including Miriam's Well, a novel; Everyday Magic: A Field Guide to the Mundane and Miraculous, and Following the Curve, poetry. Her previous work includes The Divorce Girl, a novel; Needle in the Bone, a non-fiction book on the Holocaust; The Sky Begins At Your Feet, a bioregional memoir on cancer and community; and six poetry collections, including the award-winning Chasing Weather with photographer Stephen Locke. Founder of Transformative Language Arts, Mirriam-Goldberg also leads writing workshops...2020-02-1706 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThe First SeaWhat do children lose when they acquire language? Diane Thiel is the author of ten books of poetry and nonfiction, including Echolocations, Resistance Fantasies, and Winding Roads, among others. Thiel's work has appeared in many journals, including Poetry, The Hudson Review, and the Sewanee Review and is re-printed in over sixty major anthologies. Her awards include a PEN award, an NEA International Literature Award, the Robinson Jeffers Award, the Robert Frost Award, the Nicholas Roerich Award, and she was a Fulbright Scholar. Thiel received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Brown University and is Professor of English...2020-02-1406 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThe Prayers Of The MathematicianJohn Nash was a genius who pushed mathematics to its outer limits as described in this poem awarded first prize in the BBC International Poetry Contest. Pamela Spiro Wagner (now known as Phoebe Sparrow Wagner) is an author and poet who suffers from schizophrenia, complicated by narcolepsy and CNS Lyme disease. She has completed two collections of poetry Learning to See in Three Dimensions, Green Writers Press, and We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders, Cavankerry Press 2009 the later which was a finalist for Foreword review’s Poetry Book of the Year. She also co-authored with her sister, Divided Mi...2020-02-1306 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemMary Laycock (1915-2011)The wonders of math can be found in daily life. Robin Chapman is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently The Only Home we Know (Tebot Bach, 2019) Her many awards include; a Wisconsin Arts Board Literary Arts Fellowship, 2007, Posner Poetry Award From Council for Wisconsin Writers, 2000, 2006; Honorable mention, 2012; Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award from the Wisconsin Library Association 2008, 2017; Helen Howe Poetry Prize, Appalachia, 2010. She is professor emeritus of Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Mary Laycock,” is copyright by Robin Chapman and originally appeared in Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 2015, and in her book...2020-02-1204 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemAt Last (for my brother)Sibling relationships are funny, amazing, and complicated Floyd Skloot's poetry and prose have won three Pushcart Prizes, the PEN USA Literary Award, and been included in Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, Best Spiritual Writing, and Best Food Writing. Poets & Writers named him "One of 50 of the Most Inspiring Authors in the World." His books include the memoirs In the Shadow of Memory and The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life (University of Nebraska Press); the poetry collections The End of Dreams, The Snow's Music, Approaching Winter, and Far West (all from LS...2020-02-1106 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThe Chaos Theorists Discuss PoetryHow will chaos theorists respond to a changed lecture schedule? Robin Chapman is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently The Only Home We Know (Tebot Bach, 2019) Her many awards include; a Wisconsin Arts Board Literary Arts Fellowship, 2007, Posner Poetry Award from Council for Wisconsin Writers, 2000, 2006; Honorable Mention, 2012; Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award from the Wisconsin Library Association 2008, 2017; Helen Howe Poetry Prize, Appalachia, 2010. She is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The Chaos Theorists Discuss Poetry,” is copyright by Robin Chapman and originally appeared in Verse Wisconsin, 2012, and in the...2020-02-1006 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemO'Connor at AndalusiaA moving tribute to Flannery O'Connor. Floyd Skloot's poetry and prose have won three Pushcart Prizes, the PEN USA Literary Award, and been included in Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, Best Spiritual Writing, and Best Food Writing. Poets & Writers named him "One of 50 of the Most Inspiring Authors in the World." His books include the memoirs In the Shadow of Memory and The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life (University of Nebraska Press); the poetry collections The End of Dreams, The Snow's Music, Approaching Winter, and Far West (all from LSU P...2020-02-0708 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemMeditation on RuinMany times it's the small annoyances that bother us the most. Jay Hopler was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1970, and he has earned degrees from New York University, The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and The Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of two books of poetry and two anthologies and has published in numerous journals. His other awards include a Whiting Writers' Award and a Rome Prize in Literature from the America Academy in Rome. He is a professor of English at the University of South Florida.2020-02-0604 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemMy Mother's VanMany of us spent a lot of time in our mother's van. Faith Shearin is the author of five books of poetry: The Owl Question, The Empty House, Moving the Piano, Telling the Bees, and Orpheus Turning. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including the Alaska Quarterly Review and Poetry East, and has been read aloud by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac. She is the recipient of the May Swenson award and has received awards from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts...2020-02-0505 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemWhat I Wouldn't DoSome jobs just aren't for everyone. Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of the celebrated text The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Only As the Day is Long...2020-02-0406 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemPsalmThe tiny creatures living beneath us deserve praise too. Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of the celebrated text The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Only As...2020-02-0305 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemPushing BackA town comprised of copper miners leaves a lasting impression. David Lee Garrison’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and two poems from his book Sweeping the Cemetery were read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. “Bach in the DC Metro” was featured by United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser on his website and read on the BBC in London. Garrison won the Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Prize in 2009 and was named Ohio Poet of the Year in 2014. He is a retired Wright State University Professor and lives in Oakwood, Ohio.2020-01-3104 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemFortuneWe may never know the fortunes we leave behind. Charlie Smith is the author of seven novels and seven books of poetry including Red Roads, which was chosen for the National Poetry Series and received the Great Lakes New Poets Award. His many awards include the Aga Khan Prize, the Levinson prize, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in New York City and Key West.2020-01-3005 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemAll Those Birds Flying Off That TreeSometimes personal hardship may lead to blessings. Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ph.D., the 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate is the author of 23 books, including Miriam's Well, a novel; Everyday Magic: A Field Guide to the Mundane and Miraculous, and Following the Curve, poetry. Her previous work includes The Divorce Girl, a novel; Needle in the Bone, a non-fiction book on the Holocaust; The Sky Begins At Your Feet, a bioregional memoir on cancer and community; and six poetry collections, including the award-winning Chasing Weather with photographer Stephen Locke. Founder of Transformative Language Arts, Mirriam-Goldberg also leads writing workshops...2020-01-2906 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemAugust 12 in the Nebraska Sand Hills Watching the Perseids Meteor ShowerWitnessing a meteor shower can leave you speechless Twyla M. Hansen served a five-year term as Nebraska State Poet from 2013 to 2018, is a co-director of the website Poetry from the Plains: A Nebraska Perspective, and has conducted readings and creative writing workshops through Humanities Nebraska since 1993. Her newest book of poetry, Rock • Tree • Bird (The Backwaters Press 2017), won both the 2018 WILLA Literary Award for Poetry from Women Writing the West and the 2018 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry from the Nebraska Center for the Book. She has six previous books of poetry, and her writi...2020-01-2805 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemSelf-Portrait 1945What would your self-portrait look like today? Adam Zagajewski is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He has published fourteen books of poetry, eight of them in English translation and numerous essays and prose. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, won the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature considered a forerunner to the Nobel Prize in Literature, won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award and the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature. He is considered one of the leading poets of Generation of ‘68’ of the Polish New Wave and is one of Poland’s most prominent contemp...2020-01-2706 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThat Your Hands Are Graceful and Kind Hands that are graceful and kind make all the difference. Steve Kronen's collections are Homage to Mistress Oppenheimer (Eyewear), Splendor (BOA), and Empirical Evidence (University of Georgia Press). His work has appeared widely in the US and the UK. His many awards include a NEA and three Florida Individual Artist fellowships, the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the James Boatwright Poetry Prize from Shenandoah magazine, and fellowships from Bread Loaf, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. He received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Steve works as a librarian in M...2020-01-2404 minJourney Daily with a Compelling Poemthe smell of a well-worn saddleWho knows where a little hot sauce might take you. Jim Lewis is the author of a full-length poetry book a clear day in October, and a chapbook, every evening is December. He is a nurse practitioner as well as part time photographer and artist and lives in California. A second collection of poems is soon to be published by Kelsay Books.2020-01-2304 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemDandelionsDandelions always seem to find a way to return. Michael Skau’s book of poems, Me and God was published through Wayne State College Press and two chapbooks of poems through Word Tech Editions. His poems have appeared in numerous periodicals and journals and he was awarded the 2013 William Kloefkorn Award for Excellence in Poetry. He has published articles on Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Richard Brautigan, Burroughs, and Corso, as well as books on Ferlinghetti and Corso. He is an emeritus professor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska Omaha, where he taught for 37 ye...2020-01-2203 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThe Thin Line of What I Know What stretch of road is the thin line of what you know? Matt Mason is the Nebraska State Poet and Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective. He runs poetry programming for the State Department, working in Nepal, Romania, Botswana and Belarus. Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize for his poem “Notes For My Daughter Against Chasing Storms” and his work can be found in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry. The author of Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (The Backwaters Press, 2006) and The Baby That Ate Ci...2020-01-2107 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemCorsons InletIf we allow our lives to unfold naturally without any sense of planning, are we savoring or squandering our lives? Grace Bauer’s poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. Her most recent book of poems is MEAN/TIME, (University of New Mexico Press, 2017) and a co-edited anthology is, Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press). Other books include: The Women At The Well, Nowhere All At Once, Beholding Eye, and Retreats & Recognitions. “Corsons Inlet” appears in Nowhere All At Once. 2020-01-2009 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemBalanceHow can we stay in perfect balance? Adam Zagajewski is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He has published fourteen books of poetry, eight of them in English translation and numerous essays and prose. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, won the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature considered a forerunner to the Nobel Prize in Literature, won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award and the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature. He is considered one of the leading poets of Generation of ‘68’ of the Polish New Wave and is one of Poland’s most prominent contemporary poets...2020-01-1705 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemCalling Him Back from LayoffWhat would it feel like to offer an ex-employee their job back? Bob Hicok is the author of nine books of poetry, his most recent is Hold (Copper Canyon Press 2018.) His work has received three Pushcart Prize nominations and his book The Legend of Light received a Felix Pollak Prize and was chosen as an American Library Association’s Booklist, Notable Book of the Year. Elegy Owed was shortlisted as a National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received two National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at...2020-01-1605 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemNo More BirthdaysIf you aren't careful, you might seriously injure yourself in the grocery store. Hal Sirowitz is an internationally known poet and the author of five books of poetry. His work has been translated into thirteen languages and published in magazines and anthologies. He received the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He is also the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. Hal has appeared on MTV’s Spoken Word Unplugged; Lollapalooza; Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival; the Helsinki International Poetry Festival; PBS’s Poet...2020-01-1503 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemChildren's HourBooks are the best teachers of all. Michael Skau’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Me and God was published by Wayne State College Press and two chapbooks by Word Tech Editions. He was awarded the 2013 William Kloefkorn Award for Excellence in Poetry. He has published articles on Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Richard Brautigan, Burroughs, and Corso, as well as books on Ferlinghetti and Corso. He is an emeritus professor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska Omaha, where he taught for 37 years.2020-01-1405 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemCruising with the Beach BoysThere's nothing like an open highway, car windows down, and some great music! Dana Gioia is an American Poet and writer, critic, as well as a businessman with an MBA from Stanford Business School. He has published five books of poetry and three volumes of literary criticism as well as opera libretti and over two dozen literary anthologies. He has served as a commentator on American literature for BBC Radio and as a classical music critic for San Francisco magazine. He became the California State poet Laureate in 2015 and teaches at the University of Southern California. He...2020-01-1304 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemWealthySometimes you don't need a lot to feel wealthy Bruce Dethlefsen is an American poet and poetry teacher who has published several chapbooks and full length collections. Something Near the Dance Floor (Marsh River Editions, 2003) won the Posner Book-length Poetry Award Honorable Mention from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. Breather (Fireweed Press, 2009), received an Outstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Wisconsin Library Association. His work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2003 and 2009 and he was appointed poet laureate of Wisconsin for 2011-2012. His poetry has also been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writers’ Alma...2020-01-1003 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemJanuary SongA new way to consider the silence following the hubbub of the holidays. Catherine Abbey Hodges is the author of In a Rind of Light, forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press in February 2020. Her previous full-length collections are Raft of Days (Gunpowder Press 2017) and Instead of Sadness (Gunpowder Press 2015), the latter selected by Dan Gerber as winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared widely and been featured on The Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily. Catherine teaches English at Porterville College in California’s San Joaquin Valley, co-coordinates California Poets in the...2020-01-0905 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThe Lucky OnesWhat actually makes you lucky? Greg Kosmicki is a poet and retired social worker and is the author of four books and eight chapbooks of poetry and his poems have appeared in numerous prestigious magazines and journals. His most recent collection of selected poems, Leaving Things Unfinished: Forty-some Years of Poems, is forthcoming in 2020 from MWPH in Fairwater, WI, Tom Montag editor. He received artist’s fellowships from the Nebraska Arts council in 2000 and 2006 and two of his poems were featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He founded The Backwaters Press in 1997, which he now serves...2020-01-0806 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemNew SheetsYou never know what kind of trouble unwashed sheets can bring. Hal Sirowitz is an internationally known poet and the author of five books of poetry. His work has been translated into thirteen languages and published in many anthologies and magazines. He received the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He is also the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. Hal has appeared on MTV’s Spoken Word Unplugged; Lollapalooza; Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival; the Helsinki International Poetry Festival; PBS’s Poetry...2020-01-0704 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThe Hot Dog Manif you misbehave, your mother might just have to sell you to the hot dog man! Bruce Dethlefsen is an American poet and poetry teacher who has published several chapbooks and full length collections. Something Near the Dance Floor (Marsh River Editions, 2003) won the Posner Book-length Poetry Award Honorable Mention from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. Breather (Fireweed Press, 2009), received an Outstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Wisconsin Library Association. His work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2003 and 2009 and he was appointed poet laureate of Wisconsin for 2011-2012. His poetry has also...2020-01-0605 minJourney Daily with a Compelling Poemlooking for myselfA found turquoise ring stirs up many memories. Jim Lewis is the author of a full-length poetry book a clear day in October, and a chapbook, every evening is December. He is a nurse practitioner as well as part time photographer and artist and lives in California. A second collection of poems is soon to be published by Kelsay Books.2020-01-0304 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemEarly Autumn in TennesseeNature warns us of what is yet to come. Daniel Anderson is the author of three collections of poetry his most recent is Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel and is the editor of Howard Nemerov’s Selected Poems. His many awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as a Bogliasco fellowship. He has received a Pushcart Prize and the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Anderson frequently serves as a faculty member at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and is currently an Associate Professor at the Univ...2020-01-0205 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThe TelephoneWhat would we do without our phones? Edward Field is a WWII vet in the 8th Air Force and shortly after his service began writing poetry in earnest. He has published numerous volumes of poetry, one which received the Lamont Poetry Prize and another the Lambda Award. He edited the anthology A Geography of Poets with Gerald Locklin and Charles Setler. He could play a mean cello, and won an Academy Award for the documentary film To Be Alive for which he wrote the narration. He lives in the Westbeth Artists Community in New York City.2019-12-3104 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThorns. Thistles.A lovely afternoon transforms into an actuarial accounting of time left on the planet. Daniel Anderson is the author of three collections of poetry his most recent is Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel and he is also the editor of Howard Nemerov’s Selected Poems. His many awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as a Bogliasco fellowship. He has received a Pushcart Prize and the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Anderson frequently serves as a faculty member at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and is c...2019-12-3006 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemA Dream of HorsesThe beauty of horses is captured in this poem Lee Robinson is a fiction writer and poet who practiced law for over 20 years in Charleston, South Carolina. Her poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. Her novel, Lawyer for the Dog was chosen by the San Antonio Express-News as one of the 25 best books of 2015 and the sequel Lawyer for the Cat is now available. Lee is a three-time winner of the S.C. Arts Commission’s Fiction Prize for short stories and she lives on a ranch in the Texas hill country.2019-12-2704 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemFlapjacksCooking flapjacks with your father is the best. Sharon Foley’s poems have received honors and awards from Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Wisconsin Writers Association and The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her first collection What is Endured was published by Finishing Line Press 2017. She lives in Milwaukee.2019-12-2603 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemIn Memoriam A.H.H. Obiit 1833:106Ring out false pride and want, ring in the love of truth and right. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu." He is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.2019-12-2503 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemDriving to Town Late to Mail a LetterSnowy nights provide an intimacy even for the mundane. Robert Bly is a poet, editor, and translator and has authored more than 30 books of poetry. He attended Harvard University and received an M.A. from the University of Iowa. His many awards include a National Book Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim, Rockefeller and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships as well as the Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in western Minnesota. Permission to read given by the author.2019-12-2403 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemEggA lot can be realized while scrambling an egg. C G Hanzlicek received his M.F.A. from the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa and is the author of seven books of poetry. His collection Stars was the winner of a Devins award and his translation work has won him the Robert Payne Award from the Columbia University Translation Center. He teaches at California State University, Fresno. “Egg”30 lines from The Cave: Selected and New Poems by Charles Hanzlicek, Copyright 2001. Aired by permission of University of Pittsburgh Press.2019-12-2304 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThe AuntsIt's easy to remember the voices of relatives we were close to. Joyce Sutphen is an American poet and currently a Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter Minnesota. She has published four poetry collections, the first Straight Out of View, won the Barnard Women’s Poets Prize, and a subsequent collection won the Minnesota Book Award. She was named Minnesota’s Poet Laureate in 2011 and has received a McKnight Artist Fellowship and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship.2019-12-2003 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemLake ComoThe most beautiful places in the world can still have issues. Nicholas Christopher is the author of nine books of poems, most recently, Crossing the Equator: New & Selected Poems and On Jupiter Place; seven novels, including A Trip to the Stars and Veronica; and a book about film noir, Somewhere in the Night. He has just completed a new novel and is nearing completion on a new book of poems, The Flame Tree. He lives in New York City.2019-12-1905 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemBody and SoulWhat would the body and the soul have to say to each other if they met? Sharon Bryan is the author of four books of poems, most recently Flying Blind (Sarabande Books,) and Sharp Stars (BOA Editions Ltd.), which was the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. She is also the editor of Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition (W. W. Norton & Company), and coeditor, of Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life (Sarabande Books). She has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry and has been...2019-12-1804 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemMy Father's HatsHats can do more than keep heads warm. Mark Irwin is the author of nine collections of poetry, his most recent is, A Passion According to Green (2017.)His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals. He has received four Pushcart Prizes, Fellowships from the: National Endowment for the Arts, The Colorado and Ohio Art Council, Fulbright Foundation, and Lilly and Wurlitzer Foundations, as well as a James Wright Poetry Award and two Colorado Book Awards. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. “My Father’s Hats” originally appeared in Bright...2019-12-1704 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemWalking One Cool MorningA morning walk gets interrupted by a natural cycle of nature. Sharon Foley’s poems have received honors and awards from Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Wisconsin Writers Association and The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her first collection What is Endured was published by Finishing Line Press 2017. She lives in Milwaukee.2019-12-1604 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemBach in the DC SubwayThe most surprising things can happen on the subway. David Lee Garrison’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and two poems from his book Sweeping the Cemetery were read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. “Bach in the DC Metro” was featured by United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser on his website and read on the BBC in London. Garrison won the Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Prize in 2009 and was named Ohio Poet of the Year in 2014. He is a retired Wright State University Professor and lives in Oakwood, Ohio.2019-12-1303 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemTo a Daughter Leaving HomeParenting a child though life can be summarized with that first bicycle ride. Linda Pastan has published 15 books of poetry throughout her distinguished career the two most recent titles are Insomnia and Traveling Light. She served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991 to1995 some of her many awards include a Pushcart Prize, Dylan Thomas Award, the Bess Hokin Prize, the Di Castagnola Award, the Maurice English award the Charity Randall Citation and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She was a recipient of a Radcliffe College Distinguished Alumnae Award. She lives in Maryland. Copyright 1988, 1991 by Linda P...2019-12-1203 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemPlaces to ReturnMemories are often attached to the landscapes they take place in. Dana Gioia is an American Poet and writer, critic, as well as a businessman with an MBA from Stanford Business School. He has published five books of poetry and three volumes of literary criticism as well as opera libretti and over two dozen literary anthologies. He has served as a commentator on American literature for BBC Radio and as a classical music critic for San Francisco magazine. He became the California State Poet Laureate in 2015 and teaches at the University of Southern California. He divides his...2019-12-1105 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemForeseeingImagine if you could see your entire life from beginning to end. Sharon Bryan is the author of four books of poems, most recently Flying Blind (Sarabande Books,) and Sharp Stars (BOA Editions Ltd.), which was the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. She is also the editor of Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition (W. W. Norton & Company), and coeditor, of Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life (Sarabande Books). She has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry and has been a poet-in-residence at The...2019-12-1003 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemJanuaryGetting the old truck started in January can be an art. Baron Wormser earned his BA from Johns Hopkins and did graduate work at the University of California-Irvine and the University of Maine. He has published numerous collections of poetry as well as a memoir and two books on poetry. He served as Poet Laureate of Maine from 2000 to 2006 and spent many years visiting hundreds of schools and libraries throughout Maine teaching and reading. He has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lived off...2019-12-0905 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThe LegacyWe need to take care of the earth to pass it on to the next generation. Michael Hettich is the author of twelve poetry books and as many chapbooks, his most recent collection is titled, To Start an Orchard. He earned a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from University of Miami, an MA in Creative Writing and Literature from University of Denver, and a BA in English from Hobart College. He has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Poetry East and Orion. His many awards and honors include: three Florida Individual Artist F...2019-12-0603 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemTo be of useThe people who do the hard work deserve our utmost admiration. Marge Piercy is a poet and novelist born in Detroit. She was educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern and is the recipient of four honorary doctorates. She has published numerous books of poetry as well as seventeen novels and is a recipient of the Arthur C Clarke Award. More information can be found at Margepiercey.com.2019-12-0504 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemJamSometimes relationships takes you upstream, downstream, across the seas and maybe the globe. Karen Chase is the author of two collections of poetry, her first Kazimierz Square, was short-listed for Best Indie Poetry Book of 2000. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in many magazines including the Gettysburg Review, The New Yorker and Southwest Review. She was the Visiting Writer at the FDR Homestead, a Fellow at The MacDowell Colony, and at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. She has received several grants including from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry and the Rockefeller Foundation. She is cur...2019-12-0404 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemA Walk Along the Old TracksSometimes boyhood memories of playing along the old railroad tracks are the best. Robert Kinsley has authored two collections of poems: Endangered Species and Field Stones both from Orchises Press. He was born and raised on a dairy farm in northern Ohio. He teaches at Ohio University and has been Associate Editor of The Ohio Review for the last 18 years. He lives with his wife and son in Athens, Ohio.2019-12-0303 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemCertain PeopleSometimes people we have known our entire lives can seem like strangers, while others we just meet, can seem like we've known forever. Richard Jones has published more than a dozen collections of poetry. The Blessing: New and Selected Poems, (Copper Canyon Press, 2000, in which “Certain People” first appeared) won the Midland Authors Award and Country of Air won the Posner award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. His most recent collection is Stranger on Earth. He has been the editor of the esteemed Poetry East for nearly forty years and teaches at DePaul University in Chicago.2019-12-0203 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemArms Out WideSometimes you need a little time alone with nature. Sharon Foley’s poems have received honors and awards from Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Wisconsin Writers Association and The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her first collection What is Endured was published by Finishing Line Press 2017. She lives in Milwaukee.2019-11-2903 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemWhen I Am in the KitchenRemember friends and relatives here and not here while working in the kitchen. Jeanne Marie Beaumont holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and is the author of four books of poetry. Her first, Placebo Effects, was selected by William Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series and published by W.W. Norton in 1997. Her poems have been included in more than three dozen anthologies and textbooks. She won the 2009 Dana Award for Poetry, and also The Greensboro Review literary award for poetry in 2003 and was a finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Book...2019-11-2805 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemIowa BarnsThe hayloft can be a special place, especially for a child. Sharon Foley's poems have received honors and awards from Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Wisconsin Writers Association, and Wisconsin Fellowship of poets and have appeared in multiple journals and anthologies. What is Endured, is her first collection, published by Finishing Line Press.2019-11-2702 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemFor My Son, Noah, Ten Years OldUndivided attention can be the best kind of attention given a child. Robert Bly is a poet, editor, and translator and has authored more than 30 books of poetry. He attended Harvard University and received an M.A. from the University of Iowa. His many awards include a National Book Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim, Rockefeller and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships as well as the Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in western Minnesota. Permission to read given by the author.2019-11-2604 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemReunion The place we are from is carried with us, no matter where we go. Robert Kinsley has authored two collections of poems: Endangered Species and Field Stones both from Orchises Press. He was born and raised on a dairy farm in northern Ohio. He teaches at Ohio University and has been Associate Editor of The Ohio Review for the last 18 years. He lives with his wife and son in Athens, Ohio.2019-11-2504 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemSusquehannaEverything we cherish is ultimately transient, even the Susquehanna. Liz Rosenberg is an American poet, novelist, and children’s book author. She has several collections of poetry published including The Fire Music which was a winner of the Agnes Lynch Starret Prize, her most recent collection is titled Demon Love. She has also edited a number of prize-winning anthologies of poetry for young readers. Her children’s book reviews appear monthly in The Boston Globe. She is a professor of English at Binghamton University.2019-11-2203 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemWorking in the RainThe rain offers a kind of privacy enjoyed by those who seek it. Robert Morgan was born in Hendersonville North Carolina and is a poet, novelist and short story writer. He has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship as well as awarded the James G Hanes Poetry prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He is currently a Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell.2019-11-2104 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemWoolworthsMark Irwin is the author of nine collections of poetry, his most recent is, A Passion According to Green (2017.)His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals. He has received four Pushcart Prizes, Fellowships from the: National Endowment for the Arts, The Colorado and Ohio Art Council, Fulbright Foundation, and Lilly and Wurlitzer Foundations, as well as a James Wright Poetry Award and two Colorado Book Awards. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. “Woolworths” originally appeared in Quick, Now, Always. BOA Editions, 19962019-11-2004 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemBelongingWho are you knitting for? The answer might surprise you. Sharon Foley's poems have received recognition and awards from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, the Wisconsin Regional Writer's Association as well as the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters literary magazine. Her first book of poetry What is Endured was published by Finishing Line Press. She lives in Wisconsin2019-11-1904 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemPoem for My BirthdayTo be sent a heart of gratitude is one of the wishes on this birthday. Barbara Crooker is a poetry editor for Italian Americana, and author of nine full-length books of poetry; The Book of Kells (Cascade Books, 2018) won the Best Poetry Book 2018 Award from Poetry by the Sea and Some Glad Morning is forthcoming in 2019 in the Pitt Poetry Series. Her awards include the WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, and three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships. Her work appears in a variety of a...2019-11-1803 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemNo Tool Or Rope Or PailThe work of farming is all consuming, but occasionally there is time to relax on the front porch. Bob Arnold has published numerous collections of poetry and is the editor and Publisher of one of the longest running small presses in the country Longhouse, which publishes remarkable poetry and literature. He lives in Vermont and is a stone builder and landscaper, having built many stone houses. 2019-11-1504 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemLiving In The BodyEven though we always wish for improvements, our bodies have brought us to where we are. Joyce Sutphen is an American poet and currently a Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter Minnesota. She has published four poetry collections, the first Straight Out of View, won the Barnard Women’s Poets Prize, and a subsequent collection won the Minnesota Book Award. She was named Minnesota’s Poet Laureate in 2011 and has received a McKnight Artist Fellowship and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship.2019-11-1404 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemScarsLife leaves a roadmap of scars, good ones and bad ones. Richard Jones has published more than a dozen collections of poetry. The Blessing: New and Selected Poems, published by Copper Canyon Press, (in which the poem Scars first appeared) won the Midland Authors Award and Country of Air won the Posner award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. His most recent collection is Stranger on Earth. He has been the editor of the esteemed Poetry East for nearly forty years. He teaches at DePaul University in Chicago.2019-11-1305 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThe Old LiberatorsOf all the people spotted at the mall, maybe World War II Vets are the best. Robert Hedin was born in Red Wing Minnesota and is the author, translator and editor of twenty-four books of poetry and prose including his most recent At the Great Door of Morning: Selected Poems and Translations published by Copper Canyon Press. He has taught at various universities and was the Poet in Residence for twelve years at Wake Forest University. His many awards include the William Stafford Award from the Washington Poetry Association, the Branford P Millar Memorial Prize in Poetry a...2019-11-1204 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemEnoughSometimes all you really need is a sunrise and a lake. Sharon Foley’s poems have received recognition and awards from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, the Wisconsin Regional Writers Association as well as the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letter’s literary magazine. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her first collection of poems What is Endured was published by Finishing Line Press, and her second collection is entitled Drunk With Illumination. She lives with her family in Milwaukee. 2019-11-1102 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemI Know a Bank Where the Wild Thyme BlowsA poem for anyone who has studied Shakespeare or enjoys reminiscing about college. Marilyn L. Taylor, Ph.D., former Poet Laureate of the state of Wisconsin and the city of Milwaukee, is the author of eight poetry collections. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Able Muse, Measure and Light, and Raintree Review, among many other journals and anthologies. She was recently awarded the Margaret Reid Poetry Prize for verse in forms, and was a finalist for the X.J. Kennedy Parody Contest, the Howard Nemerov Sonnet award, and the 2017 Lascaux Review prize. She also edited the recent a...2019-11-0803 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemHomage: Doo-WopLife is one long dance, whether you already know the steps or learn them as you go. Joseph Stroud has published five collections of poetry, his most recent is Of This World; New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) His many awards include a Pushcart Prize, an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as a Witter Bynner Fellowship in poetry from the Library of Congress. Permission granted by author to read poem.2019-11-0704 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemThe Trip to Brooklyn Misremembered as a Roller Coaster RideWhat starts as a typical car ride can lead to the up and down emotions of a roller coaster ride. April Lindner is the author of two collections of poetry, her first, Skin, was winner of the Walt McDonald First Book Prize from Texas Tech University Press. She is also the author of three young adult novels and has edited several anthologies. She is professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Permission granted from author to read poem.2019-11-0606 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemMomentTake time in your life, to brake, roll down the window, and look around and listen. You'll be amazed at what can see and heard, even in the San Joaquin Valley. C G Hanzlicek received his M.F.A. from the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa and is the author of seven books of poetry. His collection Stars was the winner of a Devins award and his translation work has won him the Robert Payne Award from the Columbia University Translation Center. He teaches at California State University, Fresno. Permission to air granted from Un...2019-11-0504 min