Daryl Jones recently retired from a career in academic administration and rediscovered the passion for writing that he had set aside more than twenty-five years ago, after receiving an NEA Fellowship, serving as Idaho Writer-in-Residence, and winning the Natalie Ornish Poetry Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book Someone Going Home Late. […]
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Daryl Jones: Not Your Ordinary Doppelganger
In my teens, my father liked to wear my hand-me-downs, anything I’d outgrown: a lime green pullover sweater, pilled, stretched out at the neck; a gold-buttoned blue blazer, sleeves shiny at the elbows, threadbare at the wrists. His favorite, it turned out, was my high school letter jacket, navy wool, white leather sleeves, a big […]
Episode 81: Dad Jokes & Happiness
Well before we found ourselves in the COVID 19 pandemic, we had the sniffles on this episode, slushies. But neither head colds nor hangovers will keep us from the great pleasure of discussing Daryl Jones’ “Not Your Ordinary Doppleganger.” The poem’s gentle humor and delightful details have us in stitches: the poem puts the “P” […]