Tag Archives: Ilya Kaminsky

We Must Write Love Poems in a Burning World – The Inspiring Poetry and Prose of American Poet Katie Farris

December 8, 2020 – 7:15 pm

  Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World To train myself to find, in the midst of hell what isn’t hell. The body, bald, cancerous, but still beautiful enough to imagine living the body washing the body replacing a loose front porch step the body chewing what it takes to keep a body going— […]

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To Put the Soul Right – A Poem (plus two others) by Caitlin Maude, With Thanks to Ilya Kaminsky for Sharing It

March 31, 2020 – 5:42 pm

I Long For the Rhyme of Health I long for the rhyme of health a small fresh syllable a poultice of words to put the soul right and make the body strong. I long for a rhyme to put the soul right. Caitlín Maude, trans. from the Gaelic by Pearse Hutchinson from a Facebook post […]

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So Much to Hear in DEAF REPUBLIC, Ilya Kaminsky’s Startling New Poetry Collection

February 10, 2019 – 11:54 pm

We Lived Happily during the War And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth […]

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Eyes Open, Uncovered to the Bone – Part One – A Poem by Linda Gregg

April 17, 2014 – 12:16 pm

Confession. I am afraid to go on-line these days for fear of falling down the rabbit hole of April – Poetry Month. And the blogs pouring forth their bounty of poems. Overwhelming. Yet, here I am adding to the cataract of poetry. My problem is that I have my own closer-to-home welter of words. Piles […]

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