Monthly Archives: September 2015

Two Poets Out of Ten – Hirschfield and Hayes Make the National Book Award Long List – Part One

A man I once asked a question of has died; his son sends a letter A thirsty mouse turns a river. a stone turns a river. Bodiless Words turn us. […]

Enough or Not – Part Three of Three – A Poem by Ellen Bass

                      from Autumn Quince The world is a blurred version of itself — marred, lovely, and flawed. It is enough […]

Enough or Not – Part Two of Three – Autumn Quince by Jane Hirschfield

                    Autumn Quince How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, […]

Enough or Not? – Part One of Three – First, A Poem by Charles Wright

U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright   WITH EDDIE AND NANCY IN AREZZO AT THE CAFÉ GRANDE Piero in wraps, the True Cross sotto restauro, Piazza desolate edge Where sunlight breaks […]

The “Isness” of Being Black in America – The Black-American Poetics of Claudia Rankine and……

                            In line at the drugstore it’s finally your turn, and then it’s not as he walks […]