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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 29, 20153 min read
The Obstacle Course of April: Everyday Magic, Day 846
Oy vey! I spend a lot of time on my calendar, trying to ensure that I’m not putting myself out there too much at the expense of taking...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 1, 20154 min read
Teaching Writing for the Love of It: Everyday Magic, Day 841
Tom McAfee years before I met him Believe me, I wasn’t a good poet when I studied creative writing as an undergraduate. I don’t say this...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 29, 20151 min read
Celebrate This Kansas on Happy Kansas Day: Everyday Magic, Day 836
Celebrate this sky, this land beyond measured time that tilts the seasonal light. Dream the return of the stars, the searing rise of...

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 3, 20142 min read
“Listen, This Day is MAGIC,” She Said: Everyday Magic, Day 827
“Listen, this day is MAGIC and I’m not kidding,” Kelley Hunt wrote today on Facebook, and I knew at once the truth of such moments. It...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 1, 20142 min read
The Storm Before the Storm, and the Actual Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 819
There’s nothing like listening to Wagner while lightning illuminates a vast, dark grey monster you’re driving right into at highway...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20142 min read
Sneak Preview: Marching with Zombies (from POEM ON THE RANGE): Everyday Magic, Day 808
“Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas,” I had Ken magic-marker onto a white shirt, and then, with a purse full of bookmarks to commemorate the...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 25, 20141 min read
Oh Give Me a Poem Where the Buffalo Roam: Everyday Magic, Day 804
Like all book projects to the easily-optimistic, this one seemed kind of easy and fun. Fun it was, but “easy” quickly became a...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 27, 20142 min read
Finishing the Last Poem for Chasing Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 794
As a poet, I’m not used to writing a body of poems on deadline although there have been plenty of times I’m pushing and praying through a...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 22, 20141 min read
Two Bodies Always in Motion: A Crowd-Sourced Poem of Sorts: Everyday Magic, Day 793
Two Bodies Always in Motion A coruscating kaleidescope of fire, grief, possibility, and beauty about to be ghosted in the velvet memory...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 7, 20142 min read
In Praise of Maxine Kumin: Everyday Magic, Day 785
How rare is this for a very famous poet with decades of achievements? More rare than Sam Brownback crushing on Hillary Clinton. But...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 31, 20132 min read
“I Have My Home in Two Worlds”: Coleman Barks, John Willison, Rumi, Magic Musicians and
With Coleman and John (and a very bright lamp) Last night was one of the shining evenings of my life. Surrounded by lightning and thunder...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 23, 20132 min read
“The Gift Must Move” and the Changing of Kansas Poets Laureate: Everyday Magic, Day 705
This moment is especially sweet for me. My term, which has been easing to a close with the announcement of Wyatt’s appointment at the end...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 1, 20132 min read
Riding a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Into the Sunset: Everyday Magic, Day 699
“How many cars did you go through during your poet laureate term? Three? Four?” Shawn asked me during the last poetry caravan a few...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 18, 20131 min read
The Gift of a Navajo Blanket at the End of An Era: Everyday Magic, Day 695
So much lately — from radio interviews to poet herding, plans from all directions coalescing to plans just glimmering on the coming...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 3, 20132 min read
Remembering Walter Butts: Everyday Magic, Day 690
NH Poets Laureate from left Dave Parson (TX), JoAnn Balingit (DE), Bruce Dethlefsen (WI), Lisa Starr (RI), Walter Butts (NH) Dick Allen...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 22, 20132 min read
The Next Big Thing Blog Hop: Everyday Magic, Day 687
Matthew Porubsky asked me to participate in this blog hop, which encourages writers to self-interview themselves on the next big thing in...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 26, 20122 min read
1,731 Miles, 11 Gigs, 97 Tornadoes, One Good Weather Radio & One Bad Sinus Infection: Poetry Month
What happened? I’m not sure, but counting from March 24th (when poetry month started for me) and paraphrasing Woody Guthrie, I’ve been...

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 22, 20121 min read
The Goodnight Tornado: Everyday Magic, Day 539
Goodnight, Texas Goodnight, Texas, land of expanse and loneliness, where the sky makes up for in height whatever you need in width....


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20123 min read
How Adrienne Rich Taught Me To Be a Poet: Everyday Magic, Day 527
I started writing poetry years beforehand when I was about 14, running with the usual suspects — T.S. Eliot and e.e. cummings (who were...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 27, 20122 min read
Ronda, Grandma Barb and the Long Way Home: A Miracle of Poetry: Everyday Magic, Day 525
Why the poetry caravan went to St. Francis for a reading had everything to do with one of the town’s prodigal daughters, Ronda Miller....