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Fathers Day

June 18, 2006

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June 20, 2004

Fathers’ Day

Today is Fathers’ Day. A Google search for "origins" and "proclamations" doesn’t serve up much — the basics are here: Father’s Day was first celebrated in Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910. Sonora Smart Dodd originally thought of the idea while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon the previous year. Dodd and her five… Continue reading

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Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Fathers Day

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Fathers’ Day