Tag Archives: Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

  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 […]

Mourning Must Not Overwhelm Gratitude – The Hard-Won Wisdom of Jane Hirschfield – Two Poems from Her Latest Book: Ledger and a Poem She So Likes by Gerard Manley Hopkins

My Debt Like all who believe in the senses, I was an accountant, copyist, statistician. Not registrar, witness. Permitted to touch the leaf of a thistle, the trembling work of […]

Grief’s Geology – On Newfoundland’s East Coast Trail with E.J. Pratt and Gerard Manley Hopkins (so to speak!)

                            As I walked along the cliff edges of Newfoundland’s East Coast Trail a few days ago […]