Poems and news of one’s inner wild, from your host’s experience of being delicious to a bear (“Night Hunger, Wild Hungerâ€) and inner lion DNA, to Galway Kinnel’s “The Bear,†and more, Carl Sandburg’s “Wilderness,” and Gary Snyder, “How Poetry Comes to Me†and “For All,” Lisa Jarnot, “Brooklyn Anchorage†Sandra McPherson’s “Lion,†Hayden Carruth (“wouldn’t it be great to write nothing at all but poetry of bears”) and James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man, to wild reading of domestic Odyssey—as wild life is in our headline news, backyards, urban streets, and in our creative hungers.
© Barbara Mossberg 2012
