by Adam Robinson | Apr 13, 2026 | Poetry
In our interview published yesterday, Amy mentioned she’d transcribed a Joy Harjo poem onto a piece of sticker paper and put it on her water bottle. Pretty cool. Today I thought I’d post that poem, “Praise the Rain” by Joy Harjo. Harjo (born...
by Adam Robinson | Apr 12, 2026 | Poetry
In September of 2021, Amy started an Instagram account for a new project she was embarking on: to transcribe all 1775 poems of Emily Dickinson. To write them out longhand. This morning, I started writing The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. I hope to finish within a...
by Adam Robinson | Apr 11, 2026 | Poetry
Claire Taylor peppers baseball throughout her new book, April and Back Again (a fitting title for National Poetry Month), but one of them stands out to me because it’s the first poem of hers I ever read, and it’s what enticed me to email her and ask if...
by Adam Robinson | Apr 10, 2026 | Poetry
Kurt Vonnegut encouraged people to write a very short rhyming poem, work on it with care, and then throw it away without showing anyone. I love this. Read the whole story here—totally worth it. Why do I keep using baseball photographs as the featured images for these...
by Adam Robinson | Apr 9, 2026 | Snowfort
Here’s a poem called “Rooster,” by Jim Harrison (d. 2016). Harrison, who lived mostly in rural Michigan and is the author of several books of poetry. Perhaps his most famous work is the novel Legends of the Fall, which was made into a movie. RoosterI have to kill the...
