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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 30, 20122 min read
Are You the Pretender?: Everyday Magic, Day 491
I was rushing about the small kitchen of Turning Point: The Center for Healing and Hope, making coffee and putting fruit on trays, when...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 15, 20122 min read
My Poems Travel in Packs: Everyday Magic, Day 483
Every so often someone asks what poems I’ve written lately or where they might find a poem of mine, and I don’t know what to say. My...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 21, 20114 min read
How Many Poets Does It Take To Go to the End of the World, Begin Again, and Spring Poetry on Strange
Evidently, it takes 8 poets, which is what we had for our Southwest Kansas Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems caravan, which took us across...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 15, 20111 min read
Astonished By Your Support: Everyday Magic, Day 442
When I launched the campaign to raise funds for the poet laureate of Kansas program, I was hoping we could reach a benchmark goal of...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 7, 20112 min read
Poem for Ken Irby: Everyday Magic, Day 439
Poem for Ken Irby And the clearing, if it is clearing, from the North comes on in the brain like running out barefoot in it as fast as...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 3, 20113 min read
Holly & Our Wedding Song: Everyday Magic, Day 436
We met her sometime in the early 80s, she and her husband having recently moved to Lawrence, and in no time we were doing poetry readings...

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 29, 20111 min read
Entering the Days of Awe: A Poem for Rosh Hashana: Everyday Magic, Day 418
This is the poem I wrote yesterday and read today at services at the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation. L’shanah tovah! Entering the...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 27, 20112 min read
Raising Money From My Own Front Porch: Everyday Magic, Day 417
Always loved to be on the road even if it was just bumper cars at Coney Island As many of you know, it’s been a long and dark road for...

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 4, 20111 min read
What Is This Life For?: Everyday Magic, Day 401
The first morning after the killing heat ends, after you’ve gotten through what you didn’t think you could endure, after the pear tree...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20112 min read
News of My Demise Is Greatly Exagerated: Everyday Magic, Day 389
Well, I’m still poet laureate, and as I’ve written before, I still plan to finish my term, which ends next July, and to pass on this post...

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 21, 20112 min read
Why Poetry Matters: Everyday Magic, Day 371
When it was mentioned in a newspaper article that the poet laureate read a poem at a rally, someone remarked sarcastically, “Yeah,...

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 16, 20112 min read
The Moment It Happened: A Poem For Keeping SRS Open In Lawrence: Everyday Magic, Day 368
Later she would say it was a miracle. Afterward he would tell friends it happened just in time. Someone answered the phone. Someone took...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 16, 20111 min read
Seeing in the Dark (poem): Everyday Magic, Days 350-351
Seeing In The Dark Barn’s burnt down now I can see the moon — Masahide, 1657-1723 After the fire, where next to turn? Not the old...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 14, 20111 min read
Moonstruck All Night: Everyday Magic, Days 348-349
Finding the Moon Did you stop now that you found the moon almost full, floating west across a small clearing between the dampening...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 6, 20111 min read
Supercell in Poetry & Video: Everyday Magic, Day 344
As Stephen Locke an Supercell for Stephen Did you think your life was straight as this road, something that could be time-lapsed into a...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 29, 20111 min read
After the Storm, the Stars: Everyday Magic, Day 335
Another poem inspired by Stephen Locke’s photographs, this one taken after the tornadoes in Oklahoma last week. After the Storm, the...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20111 min read
Enraptured: Everyday Magic, Day 333
Photographer Stephen Locke, whose gorgeous photograph taken last Saturday, and I have started a project combining his photograph with my...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 28, 20112 min read
When Iowa is Heaven: Everyday Magic, Day 282
Iowa has a rap for being heaven just like Kansas is forever wed to The Wizard of Oz (as the opposite of Oz). Although I traveled Iowa a...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 24, 20112 min read
Travel and Non-Ordinary Reality: Every Magic, Days 276-277
Yes, Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City actually had a section called "Non-Ordinary Reality." While it mostly had books about...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 20, 20112 min read
Living in the Pink Room of the In-Between: Everyday Magic, Day 273
In between home and where I'm going, I have landed in a very pink room where a suspiciously calm (but sneaky-eyed) Victorian girl stares...