October 28, 2022 – 6:50 pm
A Found Poem I cannot recall when I entered a state of perpetual mourning. I grieve for the country I left with no certain prospect of return, the direction it’s heading in, the plight of the world, the foreclosed possibilities. Sorrow tears into my organs and gnaws at my bones. But what I fear more […]
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October 1, 2022 – 9:29 am
Poem for Wednesday Oh, humpback of the week, yardstick of productivity, all to play for, seesaw pivot of possibility. Is your gaze holding mine for fractionally longer than necessary a sign of desire or disgust? Will we even make it to the weekend together? Sometimes, Wednesday. I wonder why I bother. But then again it’s […]
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October 1, 2022 – 8:57 am
The Cat Comes to Me —after Heather McHugh The future looks like death to me from here standing behind you, in the musty basement where the cat is cornered. You think on your feet, quickly engineer a noose from a sponge mop and silicone rope – medieval design, cheap modern materials. The cat protests wildly, […]
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By Richard Osler
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Posted in Poetry
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Tagged 000 Feet, 2021/2022 Freefall Poetry Award, From 20, Heather McHugh, Hinge & Sign, La Belle Epoch of Goldfish, La Romita Recovering Words 2017, La Romita Recovering Words 2019, La Romita Recovering Words 2022, Rattle, The Cat Comes To Me, The Cedars, The Garden Gnome Falls for a Northern Flicker, Tonya Lailey
September 22, 2022 – 8:26 pm
( EDITOR’S NOTE: Please excuse the distortions in some of the photographed images of Chantal’s poems in this blog post.) Chantal Gibson from with/holding, Caitlin Press, 2021 Although we have a rich and vibrant poetry community in Canada with voices from a wide range of social locations, perspectives and poetic genres represented, we do not […]
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September 22, 2022 – 7:35 pm
“Please allow me to introduce myself” sang the Rolling Stones a long time ago. And so here is some background on me: Daniel Scott. I am husband ( married to Christine) father, grandfather and twice retired – once as an academic and the second time after a stint of 6 years as Artistic Director of […]
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September 15, 2022 – 7:59 pm
The Alphabet of Tarot (from the Diary of Niki de Saint Phalle) All day I have been in my body. At night my skull. The architecture of my mind is a building of letters. Flying, lying low, on its side A V represents a bird. The tarot […]
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September 13, 2022 – 7:04 pm
Physician You sit at the head of the table. You say you have wanted to write about— not depression, it is worse than that, it is rock bottom: the frightfulness. People don’t like to hear about it, you say to a friend. People don’t like to read about it, he answered— and then you knew […]
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By Richard Osler
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Posted in Poetry
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Tagged I Go Back to May 1937, Langston Hughes, Luck, Muriel Ruleyser, Pegasus Awards, Physician, Poetry East 1999, Poetry magazine, poetry therapy, Ruth Lilly prize, Sharon Olds, The 2022 Frost Medal, The Poetry Foundation
September 6, 2022 – 7:38 pm
A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck — Ilya Kaminsky from A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on its Way to the Neck from Deaf Republic, Graywolf Press, 2019 […]
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September 6, 2022 – 5:57 pm
What something in me listens —after Ilya Kaminsky I try to hear the people breathing in parkades and the sound of talking over Molotov cocktails over making them and later the fhhhhhh shatter whoosh of the toss and the blaze in the street I don’t like to play the video footage the sound a peephole […]
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August 30, 2022 – 6:13 pm
REMAIN SILENT (With thanks to Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic) Deafness passes through us like a police whistle Dogs understand everything and bark and bark Ilya Kaminsky from the poem Alfonso Stands Answerable from Deaf Republic, Graywolf Press, 2019 Teaching Dwight Not to bark when he sees Not to bark when he hears As a service […]
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By Richard Osler
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Posted in Poetry
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Tagged Alfonso Stands Answerable, Amrita Sondhi, ckmunro, Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky, In a Time of Peace, Linda Crosfield, Nancy Issenman, Pat Scanlan, Sarah Wilson, The La Romita 2020 Online Poetry Community’s Kaminsky Prompt Poems
