Monthly Archives: April 2015

Pass It On – Another Poet Passes – Steve Kowit (1938 – 2015)

April 6, 2015 – 4:21 pm

                Notice This evening, the sturdy Levis I wore every day for over a year & which seemed to the end in perfect […]

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The Poem Is a Lung – National Poetry Month: Poets on Poetry #3 – Catherine Owen

April 6, 2015 – 3:20 pm

The Lung Poem The poem breathes for you some days It’s okay The poem never says he isn’t, entirely, Coming back. The poem has too many lungs to accept Death completely […]

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National Poetry Month – Poets on Poetry # 2 – A Poem by Stephen Dunn

April 3, 2015 – 10:36 pm

                          Poet and priest were one in the beginning – only later times have separated them. The true […]

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National Poetry Month – Poets On Poetry # 1 – Tomas Transtromer 1931 – 2015

April 1, 2015 – 11:48 pm

  from Morning Birds Fantastic to feel how my poem grows while I myself shrink. It is growing, it takes my place. It pushes me out of its way. It throws […]

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