Poetry for Dogs

My book, Throw Me A Bone: Poetry For Dogs, includes 31 poems written purportedly for a canine audience.

It’s available on Amazon — http://poetryfordogs.com — and priced to generate funds for three humane societies. (Writing poetry is not my get-rich-quick scheme, not a pyramid of dogs with you at the bottom. No.)

Poetry for Dogs, by Artie Isaac

“The Next Pandemic” [Poem with video]

After the text is a video with me reading the poem, followed by comments from poet Beth Weinstock. We met on May 31 for a Poetry Circle during which we read poems -- finished and unfinished -- to the other and then comment with encouragement and criticism. Here is the...

“Do The Pandemic” [Poem with video]

After the text is a video with me reading the poem, followed by comments from poets Beth Weinstock and Steve Abbott. We met on May 17 for a Poetry Circle during which poets read poems -- finished and unfinished -- to the others and then comment with encouragement and...

“Now You Know” [Poem with video]

After the text is a video with me reading the poem, followed by comments from poets Beth Weinstock and Steve Abbott. We met on May 17 for a Poetry Circle during which poets read poems -- finished and unfinished -- to the others and then comment with encouragement and...

“Access To Francis” [Poem with video]

Here is a poem inspired on Good Friday and Easter 2020 by images of the Pope presenting his messages to the world amid pandemic solitude. After the text is a video with me reading the poem, followed by comments from poets Beth Weinstock and Audrey Brahler. We met on...

What Care Of Nature? [with video]

What Care Of Nature? Deer leap our fence, to graze the early springtime grass. I had missed how predictable their comings and goings, as if a daily commute from the Glen to our yards and back. Birds cross above, on flight plans I'd underlooked, with not prey in their...

Tea Time

Is it just me, or does it feel kind of apocalyptic around here? What feels to you like a harbinger of the end? Politics? Virus? Environment? Buffoons? Markets? What are you doing about this crazy world? What are you doing about it? Here's a suggestion. Make a cup of...

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