Tag Archives: Alison Koffler

On Not Becoming a Chinese Poet

Posted on September 26, 2011 by admin

On an early October day, on the cusp of the autumn color invasion when the forest looks darkest green from a summer of soaking up sunlight, I helped lead a “Hike & Write” up to Giant Ledges as part of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on On Not Becoming a Chinese Poet

The Slabsides Poets

Posted on May 26, 2011 by admin

I’ve visited Arrowhead in the Berkshires, the yellow house where young Herman Melville set himself up as a country squire to finish Moby Dick, perhaps inspired by the whale-humped profile of Mt. Graylock outside his window. I’ve also been to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on The Slabsides Poets

Alison Koffler’s Mythical Beasts

Posted on May 3, 2011 by admin

I’m partial to Alison Koffler’s mythical beast poems because I was present at the inception. For the first, we gathered on a gray winter Sunday at the Pond House downhill from Slabsides, John Burroughs’s historic writing cottage nestled on a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Alison Koffler’s Mythical Beasts

That City/Country High

Posted on February 21, 2011 by admin

From the late 1980s well into the 1990s, I led a bifurcated life: my career, my marriage, and my social life anchored in Hoboken, then Manhattan; my romantic spirit given to weekend day hikes in the Hudson Highlands reached by … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on That City/Country High