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David J. Bauman

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My latest chapbook is a collaboration with my son Micah James Bauman called Mapping the Valley (Editor's Series, #4.12), 2021 from Seven Kitchens Press. I'm also the author of two previous poetry chapbooks: Angels & Adultery (Seven Kitchens Press, 2018) and Moons, Roads, and Rivers (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Recent poems have appeared in New Ohio Review, The Citron Review, Flying Island, and Lovejets, Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman (Squares and Rebels, 2019). Follow my blog for video and audio recordings at davidjbauman.com. ...more

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Walt Whitman
“There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.”
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Fred Rogers
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
Fred Rogers

Derek Walcott
Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.”
Derek Walcott, Collected Poems, 1948-1984

I read; I travel; I become
“I read; I travel; I become”
Derek Walcott

Frank O'Hara
“Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.

The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.

It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.”
Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

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