David Anthony Sam's Blog, page 176
June 22, 2017
Thank you Eduardo King for doing my portrait as a retirement gift.
Thank you Germanna art professor Eduardo King for doing my portrait as a retirement gift on my last full day at work.
June 18, 2017
From Merwin
Everything that does not need you is real
W. S. Merwin
This is how I write
“A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.” Virginia Woolf
“Beneath memory and experience, beneath imagination and invention, beneath words, there are rhythms to which memory and imagination and words all move; the writer’s job is to go down deep enough to feel that rhythm and let it move memory and imagination to find the words.” Ursula LeGuin
Fatherhood
My Dad kept a copy of my poem “Fatherhood,” which I wrote for him, under the cash register in his store until the day he died. I miss him every day.
Happy Father’s Day
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – Mark Twain
June 16, 2017
A blessing
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. —EDWARD ABBEY
June 10, 2017
Congrats to Cambridge MA poet Thomas Daley
Congrats to Cambridge MA poet Thomas Daley on 9 of his poems being featured in What Rough Beast
June 2, 2017
Two of my poems are in Issue #11 of 50 Haikus just released
Two of my poems are in Issue #11 of 50 Haikus just released
May 27, 2017
Two of my poems have been accepted by 50 Haikus.
Two of my poems have been accepted by 50 Haikus.
Poetry Quarterly has also accepted my poem “Silent Lights” for its Spring issue.
Poetry Quarterly has also accepted my poem “Silent Lights” for its Spring issue.
