Ars Poetica

February 3, 2025

“The World Once Green Again” by Parker J. Palmer

read by Sher Schwartz. Read the full text of Parker J. Palmer’s poem here: https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-world-once-green-again/ Continue reading

Afterward, Sher’s Voice

Ars Poetica, Parker J. Palmer
January 25, 2025

“How the Old Poetry Happened” by Tony Hoagland

read by Sher Schwartz This poem can be found in Hoagland’s final book of poetry https://bookshop.org/p/books/turn-up-the-ocean-poems-tony-hoagland/17382269?ean=9781644450925 Continue reading

Afterward, Sher’s Voice, SherPoetryEpisode

Ars Poetica, Tony Hoagland

About Me

“I’m a retired Humanities professor, published essayist, poet, painter, singer, and old-time fiddle musician living on an historic two-hundred-acre farm in Eastern Oregon. I plant gardens for pollinators and revel in insects, bird dogs, donkeys, goats, cats, and American fantail and roller pigeons. My lyric landscapes are oak savannah, prairie, and riparian. Writing poetry gives me a way to express and question the rhythms I hear. My chapbook The Beautiful One’s Ark (2024) is available through The Poetry Box and online bookstores. Sher Poetry celebrates poetry as an oral language art. Each week I’ll share a poem from some of my work or from that of other poets who I love to hear.

Ars Poetica

“The World Once Green Again” by Parker J. Palmer

“How the Old Poetry Happened” by Tony Hoagland