#poetry

The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library

Apr 41 min read

The Battenkill: A Poem by William Billings Watkins

In 2015 we had an exhibition in the Folklife Gallery entitled "Battenkill Inspired: The Flow of Creativity, Ingenuity, and the River"...

Tisha Dolton

Apr 2, 20222 min read

The Woman Sits Here Knitting: Jeanne Robert Foster, Adirondack Poet

In celebration of National Poetry Month... Neighbors of Yesterday by Jeanne Robert Foster When I go the see her, I look about the room...

Tisha Dolton

Apr 30, 20212 min read

A Poet Named Bronk: William Bronk, Hudson Falls Poet

UNNAMED from Some Words: Poems by William Bronk (1992) In the narrowest and most immediate view, we are named and identifiable as...

Tisha Dolton

Apr 23, 20212 min read

Books of Poetry: Richard Carella, Hudson Falls Poet

Nothing Is Great from Book of Nothing by Richard Carella (2013) Nothing is great- nothing is so great it can not be contained; there is...

Tisha Dolton

Apr 16, 20213 min read

A Neighbor of Yesterday: Jeanne Robert Foster, Adirondack Poet

I am dedicating my blog posts this month to local poets & poetry because April is National Poetry Month! The first featured Jonathan E....

Tisha Dolton

Apr 9, 20214 min read

An Ode to the Falls of Dionondawa: A Poem by Jonathan Elihu Hoag

I have decided to dedicate my blog posts this month to local poets & poetry because April is National Poetry Month! I first learned...