Category: Reflections and Poems

Extra­or­di­nary. A poet fill­ing a 2,500 seat con­cert hall, a stand­ing ova­tion for her inspired pres­ence and ecsta­t­ic read­ing. Mary Oliv­er, Pulitzer Prize win­ner, Nation­al Book Award win­ner, remark­able human being, cap­ti­vat­ed the crowd last night at Benaroya Hall in Seat­tle. I’ve rarely attend­ed an event as deeply delight­ful and as mov­ing. When was it… Con­tin­ue read­ing Beau­ty the Brave

Here’s the deal. Ful­ly 75% of the hits to this site are from peo­ple in search of “lead­er­ship poems,” or some vari­a­tion on that theme. Yet no one active­ly con­tributes to the col­lec­tion. Is there a mis­un­der­stand­ing here about where lead­er­ship poems come from? Indeed, I think so. They don’t come from famous lead­ers par­tic­u­lar­ly, nor… Con­tin­ue read­ing Okay, Brave Souls, More on Lead­er­ship Poems