Monthly Archives: December 2015

Poets on Poetry – WIth a Big Thanks to The Calgary Public Library

  Calgary-based poet Rosemary Griebel The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats. Charles Simic (1938 – ) from The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks, Ausable […]

Is This Really Meant To Make Me Feel Better On Christmas Eve? A Feel-Good Poem by Hans Magnus Enzenberger

Astronomical Sunday Sermon Speaking of our misery – hunger, war, murder etcetera quite so! Bedlam! Agreed! Still may I remind you, with all due modesty, that the planet on which […]

Yuletide Traditions – A Poetic Celebration By Penelope Shuttle!

Yule On the tall green tree we have hung the little golden masks of Bacchus, the many little grins glinting and sparkling, ‘oscilla ex alta suspendent mollia pinu’, waving amulets […]

The Annunciation Story – A Feminine Perspective in Paint and Words by Enjeong Noh and Jeanne Murray-Walker

Canadian/American poet Heather McHugh describes the quality of a great poem as being one that finds the unexpected in the over known. Well, hats off to painter Enjeong Noh, born […]

There Will Be Trembling – And, Thank God, The Poetry of Adrienne Rich

Turbulence There’ll be turbulence.    You’ll drop your book to hold your water bottle steady.     Your mind, mind has mountains, cliffs of fall may who ne’er hung there […]

Enlarged By Desire – The Poetry of Mark Doty

                                                      from Messiah (Christmas […]