Why Am I Telling You This?
Why Am I Telling You This?
C.M. Rivers
Pause with C.M. Rivers for a moment of poetry or an occasional report from his observatory, which houses notebooks in lieu of telescopes.
Letters From Pops, Chapter 8: Lunch With John Lennon
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Mar 5, 2023
7 min
Letters From Pops, Chapter 7: A Succession of Pitiful Attempts
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Feb 26, 2023
6 min
Letters From Pops, Chapter 6: The Helmsman
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Feb 19, 2023
8 min
Letters From Pops, Chapter 5: The Flying Seven
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Feb 12, 2023
7 min
Letters From Pops, Chapter 4: Captain Buddy and the Stingray
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Feb 5, 2023
5 min
Letters From Pops, Chapter 3: A Winter Memory
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".  
Jan 29, 2023
7 min
Letters From Pops, Chapter 2: What's A Beach?
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Jan 22, 2023
8 min
Letters From Pops, Chapter 1: I Turn Ten
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".     
Jan 15, 2023
12 min
The Hands That Make Things
Season Two of "Why Am I Telling You This?" concludes with a poem about the visible and the invisible, the mysterious and the ordinary, body and spirit, and the fleetingness of life. Excerpted from How To Carry Soup: Poems, by C.M. Rivers (Homebound Publications). "The Hands That Make Things" first appeared in IthacaLit: A Journal of Literature and Art. 
Jul 31, 2022
2 min
No Small Wonder
C.M. begins this poem by turning his attention to a small gathering of natural wonders that are often overlooked, then allows the poem to shift in tone to a diary entry written in second-person.
Jul 23, 2022
3 min
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