Yearly Archives: 2015

Tonight She Wants Wheels – Two New Books (Poems and Essays) from Jane Hirschfield

March 17, 2015 – 3:59 pm

from Fifteen Pebbles Opening the Hand Between Here and Here           On the dark road, only the weight of the rope.           […]

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Can Poetry Hurt Us? – Resurrection and Patricia Smith

February 22, 2015 – 1:35 pm

                        Little Poetry He says I am gumpopper wondrous shoulders, evil on the days I bleed. I can take […]

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What Her Heart Sees – The “Man from…..” Poems of Lorna Crozier & More!

February 19, 2015 – 6:28 pm

                    Man from the Promised Land He was the north wind, the west. And I very nearly blew away with him […]

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He Tasted What He Said – Poet, Philip Levine (1928- 2015)

February 16, 2015 – 11:18 pm

                      The Simple Truth I bought a dollar and a half’s worth of small red potatoes, took them home, boiled them […]

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Yet We Were Looking Away – On Missing the Moment!

February 16, 2015 – 8:20 pm

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