Garrison Keillor reads Wendy Mnookin

[msan...@gmail.com]

Wendy Mnookin, a talented local poet - and a member of our small poem
of the week group - has had a poem selected by The Writer's Almanac to
be read and broadcast tomorrow. And indeed the poem is worth reading
and her new book book containing it, The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, is
well worth your buying-- you can do by going here (http://
www.amazon.com/gp/product/193441414X?ie=UTF8&tag=writal-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=193441414X
)

You can listen to it being read on line by going here:
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2008/12/16
Here is the poem -- and just think what a nice present her book would
make for someone!
Yrs
Michael


At Sea

by Wendy Mnookin

At the end of the jetty.

Where the boats come in. Where the boats go out. At the pile of rocks
that swallows the sun at the end of the day.

At the turn of the trail. At the last dune.

In front of the hot-dog stand. At the door to the pub. By the shanty,
the shipbuilder's yard, the discarded yellow boots, the smashed
clam shells.

You thought I'd give in to despair.
But today is today, everywhere I look. And I look everywhere.

"At Sea" by Wendy Mnookin, from The Moon Makes Its Own Plea. © BOA
Editions, 2008. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)

[Gwen Ackley]

Congratulations Wendy! :-)

Gwen Ackley

[Barbara Helfgott Hyett (Poemworks)]

What a dear friend to all are you. Thanks, Michael,a nd happy season to you
and yours.

Love,
Barbara

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