We don’t bid our dead Godspeed to the afterlife the way we did, in churches, where weeping echoes off walls or gets absorbed by pipe organ blasts, while incense spirals from an acolyte’s censer, and the minister intones his woeful sound. After we lowered our dearly departed into the ground, back at the church hall […]
Continue reading Afterparty, poem by Dave Conlin ReadPoetry
Except for Love; New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall
Article updated June 24, 2019 by Dave Conlin Read Except for Love; New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall, was published on June 23rd, the first anniversary of his death at 89. Included in the anthology is my poem Afterparty. Mr. Hall was a guest on the 2008 broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion at […]
Continue reading Except for Love; New England Poets Inspired by Donald HallSchadenfreude sucks
Schadenfreude sucks – but the tempest surrounding the chump with the tallow-toned dome, which is im-fucking-possible not to write about, has resulted in getting a poem published; to wit, Indolent Books accepted The Outer Borough Colonel, Old Bone Spur as their Feb. 12, 2018 entry in the What Rough Beast series. The Outer Borough Colonel, […]
Continue reading Schadenfreude sucksSuper Bowl haiku
Previous to landing a poem in the What Rough Beast series, my last score was an Honorable Mention! on Only A Game’s annual super bowl haiku contest. The show comes from WBUR – played touch football on the lawn outside the School of Communications when I was at BU. For these to make any sense, […]
Continue reading Super Bowl haiku