Comments on: Letter to Dave from the Karen Noonan Center on the Chesapeake Bay

By: suzanne

suzanne — Sat, 16 May 2009 22:50:02 +0000

I’m also really lovin’
the exchange

and I can attest to the love of blog writing
when I am not myself
bogging down in
word sloth

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:49:23 +0000

I’m enjoying this series too and am always glad to see another post.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:38:30 +0000

Hey, Todd, that’s great! Generous sample of poems you’ve posted there, too. I’ll replace the link to your publisher’s page with this one, and I hope folks will check it out.

You know I’m available for free consulting if you ever decide to start a blog. The best approach would probably be to start out with something really small, an appendage of your new website, for posting news about your writing and scholarship — upcoming readings and the like. And many writers never go much beyond that. Of course, if you ever relent on having an internet connection at home, we can simply train Noah to do the upkeep for you. Up his allowance to fifty cents a week or something. That’s all I got when I was his age.

By the way, for what it’s worth, page views were through the roof today, so this poem likely got several hundred more readers than the comments suggest. I think a lot of people like to read blogs on Friday afternoons and evenings as they wind down from the work week.

By: Todd Davis

Todd Davis — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:20:51 +0000

Deb, Laura, Leslee,

You are too kind. I’m so grateful when something I write connects with others. Dave, of course, is a wonderful poet, and what a joy to send epistles back and forth. I think of all poetry as a conversation, poem speaking to poem, regardless of the time or place in which the poem is written. But how much more enriching to know the poet and the place he speaks from.

Maybe this series will make it into book-form someday!

As for blogging, I still don’t have a cell phone or internet at home. I have, however, as of yesterday, entered part of the 21st century. Our webdesigner at Penn State made me a webpage for my poetry. Here’s the link:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/tfd3/.

And here’s to spring and all the migrations we’ll make in the coming months.

By: leslee

leslee — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:57:18 +0000

Love it. (Still hearing Dave’s recording of the tundra swans.) I do love the letters back and forth, and wondered why Todd didn’t get his own blog! (No need to feed it daily as Dave does, btw.)

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:49:48 +0000

Todd and Dave…this exchange is unlike anything I’ve seen. I’ve enjoyed going back and looking at past posts very much recently and noticing differences in voice, form, tone. What’s biggest for me, though, is the relationship I see between the landscapes and natural worlds of your respective poems. How they seem to stand apart yet inform and respond to each other. I keep wanting to revisit Barry Lopez’s Home Ground. I’d love more.
Todd, I would faithfully read your hypothetical blog, and I feel sure many others would, too.

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:20:31 +0000

I love this series. I want it in a little book that can follow me from room to room.

You two are a good pair. Keeping your voices separate, yet harmonious.