Polly Brown / Poet

Tag: courage

  • Lucky

    Lucky

    I’m still thinking about courage. Given when and how and where we are now, all of us, it’s not surprising. Some of the bravest people I’ve known have been eleven-year-olds. (Or ten, or twelve.) In 2001, the day after 9/11, I sat with a group of kids shaken but still thinking together: trying to come…

  • Poetry and Courage: Four Memories

    Poetry and Courage: Four Memories

    1 Some time in the late 70s, my father and his wife were visiting us in upstate New York, and we had taken them to see a small lake nearby. Walking along the shore, my father suddenly began reciting poetry, lines (I think, now) from “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant: To him who in the…