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The Dodge Poetry Program was begun in 1986 as an initiative funded by the Arts and Education Programs of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. A series of poetry in-service days for New Jersey teachers evolved into the idea for a Poetry Festival. Advisory committees of teachers and poets (including Galway Kinnell, Stanley Kunitz, and Kenneth Koch) met with then Foundation Executive Director Scott McVay and the Poetry Program’s Founding Direc… Continue

"The wind, one brilliant day, called." --Antonio Machado

Some years ago, along a country road outside of Fresno, California, on a windy spring day, a part of the invisible world was made, for a brief moment, visible to me.

I saw, in the light lancing through a row of trees, great streams of yellow pollen sweeping by on the wind, every speck filled with information -- blueprints for making perfect blue flowers, the dark musculature of trees, meadow grasses.

I saw in that moment that the whole… Continue

I don't know if this will mean as much to everyone else as it does to me, but I grew up with Where the Wild Things Are -- it must be m

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My wife, Naomi, got me a copy of Kurt Vonnegut's first posthumous book for my birthday a couple weeks ago. Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of essays, drawings, an

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