Tag Archives: Bear

“Death in Yellowstone” by Therese Broderick

You may know of my fondness for bears. At a recent poet’s gathering, Therese Broderick made me smile with this vacation story about her daughter. We first met several years ago when she was part of a poetry circle with … Continue reading

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A Bear Attack, by Judith McCombs

I don’t share the primal fear of being eaten by a bear. That became abundantly clear halfway through an advance screening of Grizzly Man at the American Museum of Natural History. From the start of this documentary, we know that … Continue reading

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John Haines 1924—2011

In 1996, as I made my great transition from a mid-town Manhattan apartment to a Catskills log cabin, I was accompanied in my imaginative fantasies by the bear. On the eve of this move, I took a workshop led by … Continue reading

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