Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, who lives down the road near Lincoln, has a website with lots of good stuff. No surprise, the website is tedkooser.net . There’s lot a great poetry and poetry reading online there.
Below is a reading done by Kooser that is short and lovely.
First-time Fine Lines Mike Faran contributor penned the following poem, and it seems like just the thing for a pleasant August weekend. The latest Fine Lines edition is just a click away.
Satori Pettit wrote the short poem below, titled “Biography of a Monster.” Below that is a photo of Summer Camp t-shirts. Summer Camp is coming up later this month. More information on the camp is available by following this link — Summer Camp.
The current journal is also available online at this link — Spring issue.
Smart poetry today from the most recent edition of Fine Lines. Poet Cynthia Douglas-Ybara ends her poem with this bit of truth — “Words can hurt, words can heal”
The most online edition of the journal can be accessed by following this link.
The poem follows below. Click on the page to see it in a larger format.