Bob Wright: Hudson Valley Calendar Curator

Serving Hudson Valley poets since 2002!

Love

For everybody else, especially poets,
it is a nightingale that symbolizes all
the mad intensity of what one feels
to be in love.

For us, it is a bright red cardinal flitting
back and forth within the shrubbery
growing just behind the house.  And
also three raucous crows, either sitting
high up in the trees just as we pass,
or swooping through the air where we
can catch a glimpse of them.

We found out quickly how impoverished
our language is in trying to describe how
devastated yet how so completed each
of us has come to be because of this
insanely glorious connection  that exists
between us now.

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Bob Wright, who currently resides in Athens, New York, has been writing poetry for more than 30 years, has been actively reading his work at various venues in the Northeast for many years, and has hosted several poetry reading series, most recently a bimonthly poetry reading at the Athens Cultural Center. Bob was one of the founders of the Woodstock Poetry Society and for six years acted as its coordinator. Before that, in its last year, he served as president of the Stone Ridge Poetry Society, in Stone Ridge, New York. He has been published in such diverse periodicals as Oxalis, Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Freefall Magazine, Heliotrope, and the North Dakota Quarterly, as well as in several anthologies.