Poetry You Can Hear
Welcome to the Listening Booth. Sometimes, it's refreshing to rest your weary eyes and listen to poems.
Note: When - in the 1970s - I came upon the poems of Phyllis McGinley about life in suburban New York, the 1961 Pulitzer Prize winner seemed to grant me permission to write about my life as a woman of the Boomer generation. Unlike McGinley, I did not always rejoice in what I found to be true, chafing at the conventional view of a woman's role. I did rejoice in the natural world, the everyday beauty around me and the joy I found in motherhood.
Learn about my times here and in the Poetry Reading Room. Click a title link below to hear a poem. Thank you.
Three Trees at Dusk, Chatsworth, CA
Birch Tree by a Dock, Lake George, NY
Kid-Friendly Poems
In 2008, I built a page of Kid-Friendly poems for my faraway grandchildren. You'll find links to poems listed below. There is a list of fun kid activities, too. If you are a child in mid-kidhood and older (or a child at heart), listen to poems about:
- What trees might see when we ice skate on a lake
- What you might think of galoshes and boots - Knowledge I Stumbled Upon
- The snow day that didn't happen
- How you feel on the first night in a summer cabin
Activities for Kids
After you've heard poems, you could:
- Draw a picture about a poem.
- Write your own poem.
- See a Google Earth view of a place mentioned in a poem.
- Write to me.