“Easter Creek,” guides us deftly through life’s seasons with narrative poems offering glimpses of a small town’s inhabitants who love, leave, dance, dream, and die, and somehow – no ...

And light is always a cause to celebrate ... the candle would shake. And it's the obviously subconscious echo that, I think, has gone all through my writing life. And in this poem, particularly ...

SIMON: Now that poem is a children's book. COOPER: It's a family celebration ... candle would shake. And it's the obviously subconscious echo of that, I think, has gone all through my writing life.