A Day in the Life

Written by Margaret DeAngelis on 07.16.2008 | Suburban Life

Six pictures from a day in the life . . .

Details and Consequences

Written by Margaret DeAngelis on 07.03.2008 | The Reading Life

I have known [Maxine] Kumin’s work since 1970, when a single poem, “After Love,” caught my attention in The Saturday Review, a weekly high-brow arts magazine that I subscribed to.

Endlessly Beginning

I got out the sketch book. “I don’t want to work, I just want to gaze at the grass all day,” I wrote at the top of the page with Derwent Inktense pencil in Iris Blue.

As Close as the Air

Written by Margaret DeAngelis on 06.28.2008 | NaBloPoMo March 2008

June 28, 2008
Saturday
Sit by my side, come as close as the air,
Share in a memory of gray;
Wander in my words, dream about the pictures
That I play of changes.
                — Phil Ochs, 1940-1977
                    American singer-songwriter
Something shifted in me today, some quality in the air or the light that told me to pay attention, to look around, to […]