Galesburg

Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on July 11th, 2011. There are poets I love because they represent elusive/ideal/transcendent/otherworldly beauty: Yeats, Keats, Shelley, Milton, Blake, Byron. There are other poets I love because they represent familiar/democratic (small “d”)/transubstatiated/thisworldly beauty: Kooser, Heaney, Whitman, Frost, and… Read more