1544: In the White Sky | William Stafford

[exceptindreams]

"In the White Sky

Comments

[med_cat]

Thank you; a thought-provoking poem :)

[two_grey_rooms]

stafford is one of my favorite favorite favorites, and for very good reason. god. so good.

a bit of trivia that might not be of interest to anyone other than me: i wrote a poem about stafford for my poetry workshop and found out that my teacher (james hoch) had had stafford as his very first poetry teacher shortly before he died. i am 1) so jealous i could kill him and 2) really pleased and surprised to find out stafford was an influence on james hoch.

[exceptindreams]

That's quite interesting, actually. And poetry workshop? Awesome. I've never been in a class only on poetry before.

[two_grey_rooms]

i'm glad it's not interesting to only me, because i went all of yesterday being super excited about it and i had no one to tell :D. yeah, i go to a school with an excellent creative writing department, and i was delighted to see james hoch on the guest faculty this year (i had jeff mcdaniel last year). he is indeed an awesome teacher.

[mwahaism]

I love the linked poem and the lines posted from it.