by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 19, 2012 | Write Thinking
Went to see Mary Oliver read some poetry at the 92nd Street Y the other night with my friend Debbie and we were delighted to find out she’d be introduced by Eve Ensler. I wondered what the connection might be and that question stayed with me long after the...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Sep 15, 2012 | Write Thinking
Back when Smith Magazine made Six-Word Memoirs all the rage, my inner wordsmith went into action. But it was my now departed friend Kevin who dashed off mine without a thought: Zen chick with a Jersey edge. I adore that. Today, a bit anxious about a few things, I took...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 24, 2012 | Unfettered 50
On many a day I give thanks for Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, but every so often it speaks to me in an extra special way. This poem for me evokes the way I feel when I am sitting at the Hudson River waterfront, not among trees, but in a...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Mar 16, 2011 | Write Thinking
As regular readers of this space know, once I sink my teeth into something you’re going to hear about it a lot. So it should be no surprise that all my Mary Oliver talk this week would wind up seeping over into my latest column. In fact, one of her poems is my...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Mar 13, 2011 | The Universal Flow
This makes me breathless. From Mary Oliver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning and National Book Award-winning The Leaf and the Cloud, a Poem: 7. If you are in the garden, I will dress myself in leaves. If you are in the sea I will slide into that smooth blue nest, I will...
