Tag Archives: Charles Simic

The Bigness of Small Poems – # 23 in a Series – Heidi Garnett’s Poetry of Witness

November 27, 2016 – 12:29 pm

Hatchling A TV screen flickers blue in a darkened living room. A man sits on a back stoop with his dog. He scans the sky for signs of thinning cracks, something chipping in the sky’s brittle shell with its egg tooth. A night heron, rune for soul, pierces a minnow with its sharp eye. The […]

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To Soul or Not to Soul – Poems on Soul!

January 16, 2016 – 8:18 pm

Oh, I Said My subject is the soul Difficult to talk about, Since it is invisible, Silent and often absent. Even when it shows itself In the eyes of a child Or a dog without a home, I’m at a loss for words. Charles Simic (1938 – )  from THE LUNATIC, HarperCollins Publishers, 2015 Earlier […]

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Poets on Poetry – WIth a Big Thanks to The Calgary Public Library

December 31, 2015 – 3:30 pm

  Calgary-based poet Rosemary Griebel The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats. Charles Simic (1938 – ) from The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks, Ausable Press, 2008 Short poem: Be brief and tell us everything. Charles Simic, ibid On this the last day of 2015 I wanted to share the […]

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