The poem read by the poet herself at the Society of Classical Poets’ in-person Poetry Symposium held in Naperville, Illinois on September 5-6, 2025:
Video created by Andrew Benson Brown.
CB, this set of lines and rhyme direct me to the purple that many oaks sport in Autumn. Rare. Now,…
Right now, Cynthia, the oaks have lost only about half their leaves. People in New England have learned to wait…
If you were here only a couple of months after Hurricane Milton (and before that Hurricane Helene and before that…
Thank you, Brian. For a fact, I like trees -- a hard thing to do, right? Oaks don't bend the…
I don't scan "Them to" (in line 4) as a trochee, but as an iamb -- "grieves", is stressed, of…
