Tag Archives: Galway Kinnell

The Squinch – An Architecture of Appetite in Poems by Hass and Kinnell

August 27, 2016 – 10:07 pm

  BLACKBERRY EATING I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they […]

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The Secret Life of Things – More Poems and Poets on Paying Attention

December 6, 2014 – 9:59 am

  Everything is Waiting for You Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no […]

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Acceptance or Anger – Poetry and Remembrance Day

November 11, 2014 – 8:15 pm

Prayer Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that. Galway Kinnell (1927 – 2014) This small poem may  be  the bravest, if not most […]

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