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The Everyday Magic Blog

I'm so happy to share my blog, started in 2008 as part of my writing practice and as way to connect directly with you! Please peruse the blog, and sign up to get the latest posts. You can also get my beautifully-produced and illustrated collection of many blog posts, Everyday Magic: Fieldnotes on the Mundane and the Miraculous through Meadowlark Press here. Thanks for being part of my everyday magic.

How Many Poets Does It Take To Go to the End of the World, Begin Again, and Spring Poetry on Strange

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 21, 2011
4 min

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...

Astonished By Your Support: Everyday Magic, Day 442

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 15, 2011
1 min

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...

Poem for Ken Irby: Everyday Magic, Day 439

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 7, 2011
2 min

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...

Holly & Our Wedding Song: Everyday Magic, Day 436

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 3, 2011
3 min

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...

Entering the Days of Awe: A Poem for Rosh Hashana: Everyday Magic, Day 418

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 29, 2011
1 min

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...

Raising Money From My Own Front Porch: Everyday Magic, Day 417

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 27, 2011
2 min

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...

What Is This Life For?: Everyday Magic, Day 401

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 4, 2011
1 min

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...

News of My Demise Is Greatly Exagerated: Everyday Magic, Day 389

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 16, 2011
2 min

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...

Why Poetry Matters: Everyday Magic, Day 371

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 21, 2011
2 min

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,...

The Moment It Happened: A Poem For Keeping SRS Open In Lawrence: Everyday Magic, Day 368

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 16, 2011
2 min

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...

Seeing in the Dark (poem): Everyday Magic, Days 350-351

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 16, 2011
1 min

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...

Moonstruck All Night: Everyday Magic, Days 348-349

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 14, 2011
1 min

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...

Supercell in Poetry & Video: Everyday Magic, Day 344

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 6, 2011
1 min

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...

After the Storm, the Stars: Everyday Magic, Day 335

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 29, 2011
1 min

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...

Enraptured: Everyday Magic, Day 333

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 26, 2011
1 min

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...

When Iowa is Heaven: Everyday Magic, Day 282

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 28, 2011
2 min

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...

Travel and Non-Ordinary Reality: Every Magic, Days 276-277

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 24, 2011
2 min

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...

Living in the Pink Room of the In-Between: Everyday Magic, Day 273

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 20, 2011
2 min

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...

Poet Laureati-ed: Everyday Magic, Days 234-235

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 15, 2011
2 min

Poet Laureati-ed: Everyday Magic, Days 234-235

Margery Wentworth (SC), Joyce Brinkman (IN) & Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (VA) I return to the world I knew before this event to find it...

Maybe We'll Know What We Meant When We're Dead: Everyday Magic, Day 231

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 10, 2011
1 min

Maybe We'll Know What We Meant When We're Dead: Everyday Magic, Day 231

Yesterday was extraordinarily charged in a quirky, painful and tender way. Within several hours, I stumbled into an unexpected...

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