by Eugene Mahon
A Note from the Poetry Editor:
This evening, and continuing until tomorrow evening, is the 2014 observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day – called, alternatively, Holocaust Memorial Day. Because we have in our files a strong poem about this solemn day by one of our readers, Eugene Mahon, we have obtained his permission to post it today for your reflection.
Sincerely,
Irene Willis
Holocaust Remembrance Day
At dawn
the dead arose again, Continue reading Holocaust Remembrance Day
Howard Stein
Happy Poetry Month, everyone! You who are readers of this column probably agree that every month should be poetry month, but we have to take whatever we can get. Perhaps those of you who don’t always buy poetry books will think about a visit to your local independent bookstore, if you’re lucky enough to still have one, to look at the various slim new volumes on display as well as the collected and new / selected works of your old favorites. If you do have a poetry library of your own, you might want to note the publishers’ names and then go online to look for their web pages and order directly from them. This can be our way of celebrating what many of us cannot live without.
Our featured poet this month is Howard Stein, who is Poet Laureate of the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology. He is a psychoanalytic, medical, organizational, and applied anthropologist, as well as a psychohistorian and organizational consultant – all of which disciplines inform and inspire Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 7, 2014
Maxine Kumin
POETRY MONDAY: MAY 5, 2008
Long before there was a Poet Laureate of the United States, there was a Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Maxine Kumin, one of our most beloved American poets, had that honor. She has also been Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, winner of a Pulitzer Prize as well as many other prestigious fellowships and awards. One or more of her many books (sixteen poetry collections, a stirring memoir, four novels, a short-story collection, four books of essays and more than twenty children’s books) surely must be on some of your shelves already.
Continue reading Poetry Monday: May 5th, 2008
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
The Old Woman, the Tulip and the Dog, by Alicia Suskin Ostriker.
Pitt Poetry Series. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
Why a review instead of a new-poet feature this month? Because next month is the official “pay attention to poetry” month, when we will all be bombardedwith press releases and “Hey, look at me!” e-mails and posters featuring poetry, and one book – one marvelous book – might possibly get lost in the fight for our attention. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: March 3, 2014
A Note from the Poetry Editor:
It came to my attention recently that some of you may have missed the news that one of America’s most celebrated and beloved poets, Maxine Kumin, died in February of this year, at age 88, at her home in Warner, New Hampshire. An almost full-page obituary appeared in the New York Times on February 8. Continue reading Maxine Kumin 1925-2014
This Tuesday join Ruth Wisse, Harvard University, for…
FROM THE YIVO ARCHIVES
Jacob Glatstein: A Yiddish Genius in Anglicizing America
TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014 | 7pm
LECTURE
Jacob Glatstein, one of the great Jewish writers of the 20th century, arrived in America in 1914 with a virtuosic talent for his native language, Yiddish, Continue reading News from YIVO
Michael Harty
This month’s poet has a background that should be of considerable interest to our readers. Michael Harty grew up in Texas, where he attended a small rural school through the twelfth grade and published his first poem when he was about nine years old. Humbly, he admits that it was in an outdoor magazine published by a friend of his father’s; nevertheless, his early Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 3, 2014: Michael Harty
