Writers’ & Poets’ Birthdays & Other Literary History – January 9, 2018
Poets' and writers' birthdays for today, Jan. 9, include William Meredith, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Simone de Beauvoir, and Walter Brooks. You'll find today's poem, Reese's "A Violin at Dusk," below. Thank you for reading and for sharing Bidwell Hollow with
Writers’ & Poets’ Birthdays & Other Literary History – January 8, 2018
Poets' and writers' birthdays for today, Jan. 8, include John Gneisenau Neihardt, Karen Tei Yamashita, and Stephen Hawking. Today's poem "While Loveliness Goes By," which you'll find below. Thanks for reading, and, if you enjoy Bidwell Hollow, please share us
Writers’ & Poets’ Birthdays & Other Literary History – January 7, 2018
Writers' and poets' birthdays for today, Jan. 7, include Zora Neale Hurston, Sofi Oksanen, and Louise Imogen Guiney. Guiney's "Borderland" is our poem for today, which you'll find below. Thanks for reading, and, if you enjoy Bidwell Hollow, please share
Writers’ & Poets’ Birthdays & Other Literary History – January 6, 2018
Writers' and poets' whose birthdays are today, Jan. 6, include Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Strout, and E. L. Doctorow. It's from Sandburg that we have today's poem, "Shirt," which you'll find below. Thank you for reading. Carl Sandburg Today in a three-room cottage
Writers’ & Poets’ Birthdays & Other Literary History – January 5, 2018
The Snow Fairy I Throughout the afternoon I watched them there, Snow-fairies falling, falling from the sky, Whirling fantastic in the misty air, Contending fierce for space supremacy. And they flew down a mightier force at night, As though in heaven there
Writers’ & Poets’ Birthdays & Other Literary History – January 4, 2018
A January Dandelion All Nashville is a chill. And everywhere Like desert sand, when the winds blow, There is each moment sifted through the air, A powdered blast of January snow. O! thoughtless Dandelion, to be misled By a few warm days to leave thy natural
Writers’ & Poets’ Birthdays & Other Literary History – January 3, 2018
The Letter Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper Like draggled fly’s legs, What can you tell of the flaring moon Through the oak leaves? Or of my uncertain window and the bare floor Spattered with moonlight? Your silly quirks and twists have nothing in them Of
Writers’ & Poets’ Birthdays & Other Literary History – January 2, 2018
The Thinker My wife’s new pink slippers have gay pom-poms. There is not a spot or a stain on their satin toes or their sides. All night they lie together under her bed’s edge. Shivering I catch sight of them and
Writers’ & Poets’ Birthdays & Other Literary History – January 1, 2018
The Call of the Open Which yet joined not scent to hue, Crown the pale year weak and new; When the night is left behind In the deep east, dun and blind, And the blue noon is over us, And the multitudinous Billows murmur at our feet, Where
Stepping Into the Void Left by “The Writer’s Almanac”
Update from Nick: The first six months of 2018 were quite a ride. With little promotion, people found Bidwell Hollow. And they responded to it. It was clear early on that Bidwell Hollow filled a need people had for interesting,