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Pattiann Rogers
“No one ever talks about the paternal aspect of being a writer, the sending of your children off into the world…” -Pattiann Rogers Every once in a while I come across those lines of poetry that make me shudder. Their texture, exquisite, their sound, melodious, as if they are not only words but living particles…
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So What if I Have a Thing for Birds?
It was recently pointed out to me, in a poetry workshop class, that I frequent the subject of birds. I find it hard to look at a bird and not see the subject of a poem—the careful lay of feathers to show a pattern or a color at its finest, the gift of flight, the…
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Pattiann Rogers’ “Animals and People: The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself”
Pattiann Rogers’ “Animals and People: The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself” “We need to know, we must know, that we come from such stock so continuously and tenaciously and religiously devoted to life…We want to give life at the same moment we are taking it.” In Pattiann Rogers’ poem “Animals and People: ‘The Human…