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With Death Looming, Two Astonishing Poems of Presence – Mandelstam and Stafford

September 1, 2018 – 6:13 pm

AND I WAS ALIVE And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear, Myself I stood in the storm of the bird-cherry tree. It was all leaflife and […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – #30 in a Series – Christian Wiman’s Heart Cry

July 16, 2017 – 8:58 pm

Writing poetry is a much more powerful and destabilizing experience for me than is writing prose. The former plays hell and havoc with my life and mind. The latter is […]

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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 […]

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Christian Wiman and Greg Orr — How To Lighten Grief’s Gravity

October 26, 2014 – 5:41 pm

I sometimes think art is useless in the face of extreme suffering, but then I remember Miklos Radnoti, Paul Celan, Anna Akhmatova, or Mandelstam—and I bow my head (to them) […]

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