by Drick Boyd | Feb 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Poetry Class As I have previously shared, I attended college at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1971. Having grown up in the North, I had not experienced firsthand the open hostility of Whites toward Blacks in the South after the Civil Rights...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 19, 2019 | Featured
I want to pay tribute to the poet Mary Oliver, who died this last Thursday (January 17, 2019) at the age of 83. However, words do not do justice to her life or work, even though her life and work were best known in words, her words of poetry. I had not heard of her...
by Drick Boyd | Feb 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Over the last year and a half I have begun to appreciate the power of poetry, the ability of words to create images, capture feelings, speak deep truths that go beyond the rational to the emotional and spiritual. Mostly I have been reading Ranier Marie Rilke, Mary...
