A Talk With Alice Munro

Find time to read this recent interview by Lisa Dickler Awano with Alice Munro in the Virginia Quarterly.

Awano takes us into a candid discussion with the author about writing and Munro's recent canon, Too Much Happiness, which is newly out in paperback. A provocative 2009 review of the book at the N.Y.Times, by Leah Hager Cohen can be found here.

I'd also like to ante-up fresh links to The Poetry Foundation, a constant source of entertainment and my ongoing appreciation for The Writer's Almanac, introducing it's readers to great writing daily.

The Taste of Place

In mid-October, I step

outdoors. A tang hangs

thick in the air. High-bush

cranberry presses past

ripe, beyond sour. Ash

and willow leaves yellow

on mud. Saturday's snow

soaked by rain. Chill from

the forest heard asking ~ How

do I bottle October? How

will it taste?

Scanty Dancing

From The Blue Room

dappled delight
we lay on turf and lichen
bathed in a blue penetration
of bottomless sky, a brilliant
open consumption after which
we could only surrender
to napping