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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 11, 20243 min read
Riding With Ronda (With Love): Everyday Magic, Day 1,114
Ronda reading at the 2014 Power of Words conference. Photo by Stephen Locke. When Ronda's son Scott called me Monday with the news of her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 10, 20242 min read
"Seeing in the Dark": Everyday Magic, Day 1,111
On Friday night, I shared this poem at Shabbat services at my synagogue. As I read it, I remembered how, when I wrote this some years...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 13, 20223 min read
“Three Walking Songs for the Night”: Everyday Magic, Day 1056
Going from winter (otherwise known as much of April) to summer (disguised as May this year) has plummeted many of us in Kansas into the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20222 min read
The Quiet In-Betweens: Everyday Magic, Day 1055
Sometimes I feel like I’m at a sudden still point between waves of motion and change. Like right now as I sit in a floral chair in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 7, 20212 min read
The Call: Everyday Magic, Day 1057
This morning, I gave a short talk at the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation’s Rosh Hashana service on Shafarot, a calling to live...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20212 min read
10 Reasons to Come to Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 1045
Kelley Hunt and my 16th annual six-day Brave Voice, Sept. 19-24 in Council Grove, Kansas. We have strong Covid protocols in place to keep...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20202 min read
Writing With Wildlife: Everyday Magic, Day 1013
I just returned from writing poetry on the porch at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow to write poetry on the porch of our place. Being...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Prayer for the New Year & Bonus Posts: Everyday Magic, Day 993
Although 2020 is already underfoot, this is my first blog post of the year, and it’s the first post that will go out to all of you who...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 16, 20192 min read
You As a Poem (for Denise Low): Everyday Magic, Day 973
You As a Poem for Denise The poem would rise from fossils and columbarium time-traveled from your memory or the continent’s, through two...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 9, 20191 min read
Big Picture Days and Little Animal Moments: Everyday Magic, Day 964
I’ve been thinking so hard that I’ve landed in myself into the land of the fuzzy-headed, seeking solace in deep-sea naps on the couch,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 18, 20194 min read
In Praise of Mary Oliver: Everyday Magic, Day 962
I can’t remember when I first encountered Oliver’s poetry, but I know this: it wasn’t when I was doing a PhD in poetry despite my comps...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20183 min read
Surprises From 2018: Everyday Magic, Day 960
In reading Kate Bowler’s evocative essay, “How Cancer Changes Hope” and revising poems for my next book, How Times Moves, I’ve been...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 7, 20181 min read
Surprise Lilies: Everyday Magic, Day 948
Surprise Lilies Green shots, pink ribbons in the alley lining the dumpster or the driveway around the broken mowers, past moving out...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 28, 20176 min read
Remembering Dick Allen, 1939-2017: Everyday Magic, Day 922
The only problem was, that aside from the conference organizers, there were only a handful of conference-goers. We filled the open space...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 9, 20172 min read
Putting the New Poetry Book to Bed: Everyday Magic, Day 905
It’s called “putting the book to bed” when you turn in your final version of a whole bunch of pages about to be published as a real, live...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 5, 20171 min read
Following the Curve – a New Book of Poems About an Old Tradition: Everyday Magic, Day 901
Yoga, one of the oldest maps for being a body, says so much about cultivating a life of daring vitality and compassionate alignment. I’ve...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 20172 min read
Poets Laureate of Kansas Call For the Humanities
In the past few weeks, I’ve been workin Poets Laureate of Kansas Statement of Support for the Humanities What does it mean to be fully...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 24, 20173 min read
Save the Humanities!: Everyday Magic, Day 894
Photo by Stephen Locke, used with permission The kids were already in the front seats when I arrived at the Coffey County Library branch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 21, 20161 min read
Prevernal for the Vernal Equinox: Everyday Magic, Day 891
Prevernal The dogs stop. The deer over the loop of the field pause. The highway rising west clears. I wait. Let my breath make itself...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 30, 20154 min read
Ken Irby, Rest (Travel, Drink, Read and Write) in Peace: Everyday Magic, Day 861
Last night I got to join some of Ken’s closest friends, some of whom have been devoting themselves to his health and comfort over many...
