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2 weeks ago Dec 24, 2025Dec 23, 2025HTBS

The Caroling Waves

Nov 21, 2025Nov 20, 2025HTBS

John the Orange-Man of Harvard

Sep 28, 2025Sep 27, 2025HTBS

Signing On For the Voyage

Sep 21, 2025Sep 21, 2025HTBS

The Elevated Moment

Jul 4, 2025Jul 3, 2025HTBS

Waving the Flag: A Song for the Fourth

Jun 22, 2025Jun 21, 2025HTBS

At Sea, I Know Where I Am

Jun 15, 2025Aug 1, 2025HTBS

American Trilogy

May 25, 2025Jun 21, 2025HTBS

The Beating Heart of the Evening

May 11, 2025May 10, 2025HTBS

The Harboring of Criminals

Apr 30, 2025Apr 29, 2025HTBS

Keeping Score

Apr 24, 2025Apr 23, 2025HTBS

At School

Apr 6, 2025Apr 9, 2025HTBS

Peace River, Mystic II

Apr 6, 2025Apr 9, 2025HTBS

Peace River, Mystic I

Feb 16, 2025Feb 15, 2025HTBS

The Profoundness of Children

Feb 9, 2025Feb 8, 2025HTBS

Container Ship

Feb 2, 2025Feb 1, 2025HTBS

In the Sound of Mystic Bells

Dec 31, 2024Dec 30, 2024HTBS

The Feast of the Seven Fishes

Dec 22, 2024Dec 21, 2024HTBS

The Ferryman

Nov 3, 2024Nov 2, 2024HTBS

The Opening Act

Oct 27, 2024Oct 27, 2024HTBS

Knowing What to Bring With Me

Oct 20, 2024Oct 20, 2024HTBS

What Was Captured, What Lost

Oct 13, 2024Oct 13, 2024HTBS

I Thought A Boat

Oct 6, 2024Oct 6, 2024HTBS

Fresh Off the Boat

Sep 22, 2024Sep 21, 2024HTBS

The Architecture of A Late Summer Afternoon

Sep 1, 2024Aug 31, 2024HTBS

The Fishing Expedition

Aug 4, 2024Aug 4, 2024HTBS

Beach Patrol

Jun 30, 2024Jun 30, 2024HTBS

After the Hiatus

May 26, 2024May 25, 2024HTBS

The Sadistic Joker

Apr 28, 2024Apr 27, 2024HTBS

“The Aura of Mystery”

Apr 27, 2024Apr 27, 2024HTBS

4:30 A.M. (at the Shore)

Apr 25, 2024Apr 24, 2024HTBS

The Lady of the Lake, the Water, and the Mere

Mar 24, 2024Mar 23, 2024HTBS

The Race

Mar 12, 2024Mar 11, 2024HTBS

The HTBS Quindecennial

Mar 7, 2024Mar 6, 2024HTBS

Doing Time

Mar 3, 2024Mar 2, 2024HTBS

What Becomes

Feb 25, 2024Feb 24, 2024HTBS

Boats in Snow

Feb 20, 2024Feb 19, 2024HTBS

Hear The Thames Sing

Feb 18, 2024Feb 17, 2024HTBS

We Come to Live What We Write

Feb 11, 2024Feb 10, 2024HTBS

Streaming Poems

Jan 7, 2024Jan 7, 2024HTBS

Waiting For Thaw

Dec 24, 2023Dec 23, 2023HTBS

The Moth of Memory

Dec 10, 2023Dec 9, 2023HTBS

A Mystical Experience

Jul 9, 2023Jul 8, 2023HTBS

Rowing Put On Hold

Jul 4, 2023Jul 4, 2023HTBS

In the Fourth’s Night Sky

Jun 3, 2023Jun 24, 2023HTBS

Acts of Adherence

Feb 26, 2023Feb 25, 2023HTBS

Poet at Play

Feb 20, 2023Feb 19, 2023HTBS

Collision Course

Jan 22, 2023Jan 21, 2023HTBS

Boyhood Memory

Dec 10, 2022Dec 9, 2022HTBS

Bending Water

Nov 27, 2022Nov 26, 2022HTBS

A Mystic Experience

Oct 16, 2022Oct 16, 2022HTBS

While Out Boating

Sep 25, 2022Sep 24, 2022HTBS

The Blowing in the Falling

Sep 18, 2022Sep 17, 2022HTBS

Gone, Fishing

Sep 11, 2022Sep 10, 2022HTBS

Of Time, Thames-Robed

Sep 4, 2022Sep 3, 2022HTBS

Channeling the Boat, Within

Aug 23, 2022Aug 22, 2022HTBS

Cloisim an Bád ag Canadh / I Hear the Boat Sing

May 29, 2022May 28, 2022HTBS

Who Fishing Whom

Apr 17, 2022Apr 16, 2022HTBS

New England Song

Apr 15, 2022Apr 15, 2022HTBS

Philip Kuepper: “Poetry wouldn’t leave me alone”

Apr 10, 2022Apr 9, 2022HTBS

In the Spirit of the Moment

Mar 13, 2022Mar 12, 2022HTBS

The Fleet Setting Out

Jan 30, 2022Jan 30, 2022HTBS

The Hazardous Condition

Dec 26, 2021Dec 23, 2021HTBS

The Tree, Erect

Nov 28, 2021Nov 27, 2021HTBS

Living History

Sep 4, 2021Sep 7, 2021HTBS

The Sea After the Storm

Jul 25, 2021Jul 24, 2021HTBS

The Unfulfillable Vow

Jul 11, 2021Jul 10, 2021HTBS

Membership in the Club

May 30, 2021May 30, 2021HTBS

Numina

Apr 20, 2021Apr 18, 2021HTBS

The Boat of Memory

Feb 28, 2021Feb 27, 2021HTBS

Winter, Midpoint

Aug 9, 2020Aug 8, 2020HTBS

Rowing Toward the Core

Jul 26, 2020Jul 26, 2020HTBS

Boats Are Shoes

Jul 11, 2020Jul 10, 2020HTBS

Grounded in Memory

Jun 20, 2020Jun 20, 2020HTBS

Truth Is in How One Rows

May 24, 2020May 23, 2020HTBS

The Premonition

May 9, 2020May 8, 2020HTBS

When Shall We See the Thames Again?

Apr 26, 2020Apr 26, 2020HTBS

The Voyage Past Death

Apr 26, 2020Apr 26, 2020HTBS

The Death of the One with whom I Sailed

Apr 12, 2020Apr 10, 2020HTBS

Going Viral

Apr 5, 2020Apr 4, 2020HTBS

This Ship of Passage

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