Thanks, Matthew, for including me. It’s a lovely issue with some great poetry!

Thanks, Keith!

Honored to have my short poem "One or Two Streets Away" included in the new issue of The Madrid Review. Thank you to Guest Poetry Editor Matthew Stewart and Editor Jayne Marshall!

Thank you!

A replica of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond, and his writing desk inside. Emerson's house nearby, and writing table.

Thanks. It was a literary vacation, inspired by poets.

Mary Oliver's waterfront condo in Provincetown, where she lived for many years, and the Beech Forest trail near Blackwater Pond, where she regularly walked and found inspiration.

The bronze statue of Edna St. Vincent Millay ("Vincent") in Camden, Maine, where she grew up, gazing out at Camden Harbor.

The view from Robert Frost's second-story window, across the eastern valley of the White Mountains to the Franconia Range.

Visited Emily Dickinson's house the other day. Here is the reproduction of her tiny cherry-wood writing desk, 18 by 18 inches, just large enough for an oil lamp, ink bottle, pens and paper. The south-facing room looks out on Amherst's Main Street.

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?