Yearly Archives: 2023

For This I Came – Guest Poetry Blog Series # 18 – Part Two of Two – Canadian Poet Barbara Pelman Features Jewish American Poet, Alicia Ostriker (1937-)

from SEASONAL When the full sun is on me this way I itch and am satisfied I take it in like a thirsty man drinking from his garden hose I […]

In Spite of Loss Remembering How To Fall In Love With the World Itself – Brian Turner’s First of Three New Poetry Collections Being Released in 2023 – Elegies and Love Poems to His Late Wife Ilyse Kusnetz and to the World

Geologic When I don’t have a body anymore. When I’m ash and fragmented bone. I think about the early people, trapped between one geological era and another, unfathomable. Their dust […]

The Art of Poetic Midrash – Guest Poetry Blog #18 – Introducing the Latest Contributor, Canadian Poet, Barbara Pelman – Part One of Two

ISAAC —after Czeslaw Milosz’s poem Should Should Not A father should not lay his son upon an altar, should not listen to all he is told. He should not wander […]

The Drunkeness of Things Being Various – Guest Poetry Blog Series # 17 – Part Two of Two – Canadian Poet Catherine Graham Features Northen Irish Poet Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)

CATHERINE GRAHAM FEATURES LOUIS MACNEICE Snow The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener […]

Grief Is Like Waiting for Fifty Giant Black Kettles to Boil – Guest Poetry Blog #17 – Introducing the Latest Contributor, Canadian Writer, Catherine Graham – Part One of Two

Back to the Quarry This surface for long-legged spiders once absolved teen skin. Plunge into the limestone museum. Mingle with rusty machinery sunken by a triggered spring. Let sunfish nibble […]

Our Burning World – Poems and Other Writing by W.S. Merwin, Barry Lopez, Kim Stafford and Katie Farris

In this trembling moment, with light armor under several flags rolling across northern Syria, with civilians beaten to death in the streets of occupied Palestine, with fires roaring across the […]

Words Emerge from Silence, the Silence Remains – Two More Poems by American Literary Treasure Wendell Berry

from Sabbath Poems 2007, V Those who use the world assuming their knowledge is sufficient destroy the world. The forest is mangled for the sale of a few sticks, or […]

A Wonderful Contrariness! – Guest Poetry Blog Series # 16 – Part Two of Two – Canadian Poet Kate Cayley Reflects on Poems by Wendell Berry and Philip Larkin

 KATE CAYLEY FEATURES WENDELL BERRY AND PHILIP LARKIN The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer I am done with apologies. If contrariness is my inheritance and destiny, so be it. If […]

Repetition as a Form of Attention – Guest Poetry Blog # 16 – Part One of Two – Introducing the Latest Contributor, Canadian Poet Kate Cayley

  Attention And if repetition could itself be a form of attention, folding along the crease until the crease finds itself hollowing out the groove, as in marriage, studying the […]

Why Is The World Like This? Guest Poetry Blog Series # 14 – Part Two – American Poet Christopher Locke Features American Poet Denis Johnson

Guest Blog Post by Christopher Locke, June 22nd, 2023 Passengers The world will burst like an intestine in the sun, the dark turn to granite and the granite to a […]