Look at that lineup! Be still my poetry heart! And they’re all coming to Ohio!
And…
…I will be helping to lead the Casting for Recovery retreat that weekend!
You can hear my sobs and wailing and gnashing of teeth, can’t you? So. Please go in my stead and tell me all about it. More information and registration is here. Go to the live Poetry Unbound interview. Wander the streets and enjoy the typewriter poets. Swoon for me, please. I’m swooning from afar.
I don’t have a poem to share today, just this sad-for-me / happy-for-you news.
Plus, I would be remiss if I didn’t link to Amanda Gorman’s PHENOMENAL poem delivered at the DNC.
Oh, and the poets.org poem of the day today was my kind of call to action.
Rose has this week’s Poetry Friday roundup at Imagine the Possibilities.
A(nother) Year of Reading 
Wow…a dream line up! It’s how I felt about The Universe in Verse gathering in Austin the night before the eclipse. O to fill our aging bodies’ hearts with these voices!
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Amanda’s poem was phenomenal! I clapped from my favorite chair as she finished those stirring words. And your call to aging bodies poem is a perfect reminder. We are favored and blessed to wake again in our aged bodies, no matter what tunes and refrains they call.
That is certainly a dream lineup! I feel your disappointment. Maybe some of our PF friends will be there and will share their experiences with us.
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Mary Lee, wow! So much here to love. Thank you for sharing the Wick Poetry Center conference. Aren’t you lucky to be so near Kent State? Although, I’m so sorry you won’t be able to attend. But what a great reason–Casting for Recovery–such a worthwhile endeavor. That is awesome. I love watching Amanda share her patriotic poem again. And that poem of the day, so rich. I can appreciate the call to my aging body to rise up! Beautiful!
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Sorry for your conflict, Mary Lee. I guess it’s a good one to have with two special events, but . . . And, yes, I loved seeing & hearing Amanda’s poem!
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Thanks for all the links, Mary Lee. I especially appreciated the link to Amanda Gorman’s performance as I missed it live. And oh, those aging bodies! Appreciate it all.
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That line up is ….crazy wow! I suspect you’ll feel the poetry emanations from wherever you are in Ohio. Just cast your line out a little further… Also, I thought of you when I read the poem of the day and almost sent you the link. It reminded me of your poem from a month or so ago. Thanks for the Amanda Gorman link. I’m going to go check it out right now.
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I was all ready to book a flight until you said you were busy that weekend. Let’s trust they will come our way again. Or will there be a video? Thanks for the Amanda Gorman clip. I had not seen it.
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I’m so sorry you are missing this! I missed the National Book Festival yesterday for no other reason that I just had a few hours to spare and I was too exhausted after the first week of school to make the trek into DC. 😦
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Mary Lee, your post is wonderful. Calling to every aging body/to rise up-now that’s a true call to action. I missed Amanda G’s poem but am so glad that you shared it with us. The Wick Center Poetry celebration will be a magnificent event. I am sorry that you will miss it but you have another amazing event to lead. Have a fabulous end-of-summer weekend.
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Mary Lee, I’m sorry you’ll miss it! Arrgh! But what you’re doing instead is beautiful.
I almost shared the ode to aging bodies as well. 🙂 Great minds (and old bodies) and all that… 😉
And yes, Gorman was incredible!
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Oh my goodness – what a lineup is right! And, yes, you’ll be “living your poem” elsewhere, as Irene might say, that weekend. (I loved hearing Amanda Gorman at the DNC too!)
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