Tag Archives: Muriel Rukeyser

The Bigness of Small Poems – # 15 in a Series – Advice from Rukeyser: Burst Into Flower

May 20, 2016 – 11:12 pm

THE POWER OF SUICIDE The potflower on the windowsill says to me In words that are green-edged red leaves : Flower     flower     flower     flower Today for the sake of all the dead     Burst into flower. Muriel Rukeyser, from The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, McGraw- Hill, 1982 Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) is […]

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

December 31, 2015 – 3:30 pm

  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 Press, 2008 Short poem: Be brief and tell us everything. Charles Simic, ibid On this the last day of 2015 I wanted to share the […]

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Why Do We Fear Poetry? Two Poets Answer: Muriel Rukeyser and Brenda Hillman

August 8, 2015 – 5:06 pm

      Two Years Two years of my sister’s illness; the wind whips the river of her last spring. I have burned the beans again. Muriel Rukeyser (1913 – 1980) from The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, McGraw Hill, 1982 Strange, for me, how poets and poems move like flotsam on a river. Is […]

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