Thirty New Poems by Daniel L. Smith celebrate the lessons learned from summertime insects in this "sutra for August insects" in the first collection of work in fifteen years. Smith's poetry is self-referential to the craft itself, current events of summer 2014, and results from a challenge by fellow poet Amanda Dowd, also a fellow beekeeper, from France to write 30 poems in thirty days, as part of Seattle Washington poet Paul Nelson, creator of the project. Nelson compiles a list of poets to encourage spontaneous writing and foster creativity, increase networking among serious working poets,...
Thirty New Poems by Daniel L. Smith celebrate the lessons learned from summertime insects in this "sutra for August insects" in the first collection o...
None of these poems, save the exception of the first ten poems, entitled "Adagio Poems," are found in extant manuscripts of Smith's work. None of the selected poems are part of the early poems found in "The Prophetic Tempest," or later, post Bread Loaf years in the late seventies and mid-eighties, as in "Something like the Cost of Darkness." Nor are they part of "Without Thought of Return" or "Coming Home Late," two smaller collections of poetry of the same time period, 1990's and later. "Adagio Poems" are addressed to no one but a benevolent creator who has graced us with a bountiful life....
None of these poems, save the exception of the first ten poems, entitled "Adagio Poems," are found in extant manuscripts of Smith's work. None of the ...
On the occasion of this Second Edition Annotated of the Selected Poems, I have been honored by the response thus far to an otherwise relatively obscure poet quietly living his life and getting about with the never ending joy of playing with words and paying the bills. I am indeed blessed, surely very grateful to those who believed in me and the first edition, despite its very fine print and its overall weight of forty three years of writing. A few changes to text have been made, since abandoning the first edition-the only one I thought I would get a chance to comment upon. The font and...
On the occasion of this Second Edition Annotated of the Selected Poems, I have been honored by the response thus far to an otherwise relatively obscur...
ROOM AT THE TABLE collects old and new family recipes handed down generations through the cooks in the Renth and Weidler families of St. Louis, Missouri, as a memorial to Betty Jean Weidler Renth and her husband Earl Renth. The idea for this compilation of recipes came while the editor (Betty Jean's last son-in-law) was on retreat studying ways to be more inclusive, to "make a place for everyone at the table," and to scour the clippings and tattered scraps of recipes handed down to the cook in my household, Carol, one of the Renth girls.
ROOM AT THE TABLE collects old and new family recipes handed down generations through the cooks in the Renth and Weidler families of St. Louis, Missou...
