Poetry

Article updated September 15, 2019 by Dave Read Two poems by Dave Conlin Read, Fall Vespers and Winter Reverie, will be published in the Fall/Winter 2019-2020 issue of the Aurorean, due out in late October. Fall Vespers Because summertime leaves us limp with languor, trees who cast only shadows heretofore, now also cast doubt. They […]

Article updated September 12, 2019 by Dave Read It was my good fortune to participate in a poetry workshop during the 2018 Sharon Springs Poetry Festival, along with nine other poets, which was run by festival-founder Paul Muldoon. I was smart enough to ask colleagues in my weekly workshop in the Berkshires to help me […]

Article updated September 6, 2019 by Dave Read Following the appearance in a January 2012 edition of the New Yorker of his now-famous essay “Out the Window,” I became acquainted with Donald Hall and had the pleasure of three visits at Eagle Pond Farm, with trips to a succession of area restraunts. Also, I attended […]

Porter Square Books in Cambridge hosted a reading for Except for Love, New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall on Aug. 16 – there’s one scheduled for the Bookstore in Lenox on November 7th. It was great fun to meet several co-contributors, and to hear their various Don Hall stories. I knew that I wasn’t […]

Once you start the video, you can fast-forward to my poems at around 1:10. Poem titles are: 1.Vice Versa 2.Big Apple Byte 3.Hold Still 4.In Loco Parentis, or Mark & Sheryl to the Rescue 5.It’s Not Up to Chuck & Nancy 6.Jared has Four Diamonds,* Every Kick begins with K I made a mistake in […]

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 […]

Having ordered a parade of his own, Trump is transformed from Putin’s Puppet, to Kim’s Clone. Now, we wonder … Will he ask bids for a new pyramid, or coldly evict, then re-brand Grant’s Tomb? poem by Dave Conlin Read; first published by Indolent Books in their What Rough Beast series.