Tag Archives: Adam Zagajewski

Are We A Form of Praise? The Praiseworthy New Poetry Collection, “Lent”, from the 2021 Mitchell Prize Winner, Canadian Poet Kate Cayley

April 4, 2023 – 2:08 pm

Walking When the branches on the bare tree ahead turn to a red mist. When the slanted stones rising from the water at your right are a flock of crying […]

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The “Longness” of Poetry, Guest Poetry Blog #11, Introducing the latest Contributor, Peggy Rosenthal, Part One of Two

April 2, 2023 – 11:24 am

  from Ars Poetica? The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys […]

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How To Praise This Mutilated World? – A Post Triggered by Ilya Kaminsky’s Twitter Feed Today – In Response: Two Poems – One from American Poet Maggie Smith and One from Canadian Poet Patrick Lane, from His Posthumous Collection Released Last Week

March 22, 2022 – 10:59 pm

OscarDomesticated @OscDomesticated A note from #Mariupol : “Dima, Mom was killed on 9 March 2022. She died quickly. Then the house burnt down. Dima, I’m sorry I didn’t protect her. […]

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A Love Poem to Lviv (Lvov, Lwowa) and Ukraine! And a Tribute (R.I.P.) to Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021) the Polish Poet, Born in Lviv When it Was Part of Poland

February 28, 2022 – 7:22 pm

To go to Lvov (Jechać do Lwowa) To go to Lvov. Which station for Lvov, if not in a dream, at dawn, when dew gleams on a suitcase, when express […]

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On Swimming – Remembering Adam Zagajewski and A “Swimming” Poem by Maxine Kumin!

March 22, 2021 – 9:17 am

On Swimming The rivers of this country are sweet as a troubador’s song, the heavy sun wanders westward on yellow circus wagons. Little village churches hold a fabric of silence […]

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We Must Write Love Poems in a Burning World – The Inspiring Poetry and Prose of American Poet Katie Farris

December 8, 2020 – 7:15 pm

  Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World To train myself to find, in the midst of hell what isn’t hell. The body, bald, cancerous, but still beautiful enough […]

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Eyes Open, Uncovered To The Bone – Part Two – A Poem by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

April 17, 2014 – 12:46 pm

What a delight it has been to discover the poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly, author of three collections of poems and winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize […]

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An Alphabet of Poets – Z is for Zagajewski – Part Two – Try To Praise The Mutilated World

June 3, 2012 – 11:12 pm

Try to Praise the Mutilated World Remember June’s long days And wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow The abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must […]

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An Alphabet of Poets – Z is for Zagajewski

June 3, 2012 – 10:45 pm

Try to Praise the Mutilated World Try to praise the mutilated world Remember June’s long days And wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow The […]

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Poetry As A Spiritual Practice – Aching For The Roof

March 15, 2012 – 4:51 pm

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through listen to this music Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (1320-1389) from Love Poems from God, trans. Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin […]

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