Close Reads Poetry Hour featuring Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring" and Mary Oliver's [updated with recording]

Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry (1834) by Katsushika Hokusai; Katsushika Hokusai, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Hey friends!

It’s time for another edition of the Close Reads Poetry Hour—this time with a Spring theme. In fact, both poems have the same apt title: “Spring.”

Here is a link to Hopkins poem.

And here is the Oliver poem.

These conversations have been delightful. I hope you’ll join!

It will start at 9:00 pm eastern and go for one hour. Can’t join us live? Subscribers will have access to the video recording after the fact.

Here’s the video recording: