POETRY MONDAY: April 6, 2013

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Lisken Van Pelt Dus

Our poet this month is both multi-talented and rich in background and experience. A teacher and martial artist (yes, that’s right; she teaches classical Okinawan karate and kobudo (weapons) at a martial arts studio of which she and her husband Bob are co-owners). Her more conventional job is as a teacher of writing and languages at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. I seem to recall that she is also a fine musician.

Raised internationally, in England, the U.S. and Mexico, she arrived in the Berkshires from London to attend Williams College, where she earned a B.A. in religion. Subsequently, she completed a Master’s in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 6, 2013

Hilda Doolittle and Creativity: Freud’s Gift by Arlene Kramer Richards

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Click Here to Read:  Hilda Doolittle and Creativity:  Freud’s Gift by Arlene Kramer Richards.   This paper originally appeared as:  Richards, Arlene Kramer (1992 ).  Hilda Dootlitle and Creativity:  Freud’s Gift. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 47:391-406 and appears here with all requisite rights and conditions.

Click Here to Read:  This paper in Chinese.

POETRY MONDAY: April 1, 2013

No picture today, and no single featured poet, because this is National Poetry Month, and I want to talk to you about poetry.

Those of you who visit these pages are already readers, and I know you go to bookstores and libraries pretty regularly. But please, this month, seek out the shelves that contain poetry – single-author collections, anthologies, and books about poetry. Usually, you will have to ask where those shelves are, because if you search for them yourself, you may not find them. Often, they are tucked away in corners. If you ask for a particular poet or collection, it may have to be special-ordered. But please, do it anyway. Let the bookstore owners know that you are looking for a generous selection of poetry. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 1, 2013

How Therapists Dance by Dane Cervine

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Dane Cervine’s new book is entitled How Therapists Dance, from Plain View Press (2013), which also published his previous book The Jeweled Net of Indra. His poems have been chosen by Adrienne Rich, Tony Hoagland, Atlanta Review and Caesura for prizes or acknowledgement and have appeared in a wide variety of journals including The SUN Magazine, The Hudson Review, Catamaran, Red Wheelbarrow, anthologies, newspapers, video & animation. Visit his website at:  www.DaneCervine.typepad.com Dane is a therapist, and serves as Chief of Children’s Mental Health for Santa Cruz County.

Read the poem “Enlightenment Is a Bitch” on the website if The Sun.
Read about Dane’s new book, How Therapists Dance.

POETRY MONDAY: March 4, 2013: H.A. Maxson

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H.A. Maxson

Our March poet, H.A. Maxson, whose poems have been nominated many times for Pushcart Prizes, is the author of 15 books: four collections of poetry, Turning the Wood, Walker in the Storm, The Curley Poems and Hook; a book-length poem, The Walking Tour: Alexander Wilson in America; a novel in free verse, Brother Wolf; a novel, The Younger; seven works of historical fiction for young readers, and a critical study, On the Sonnets of Robert Frost. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: March 4, 2013: H.A. Maxson

Between Hours: A Collection of Poems by Psychoanalysts

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Click Here to Read:  Between Hours: A Collection of Poems by Psychoanalysts edited by Salman Akhtar reviewed Lee Jenkins in Psychoanalytic Review.

This article originally appeared as Jenkins, Lee (2012). Review of Akhtar, Salman, ed,  A Between Hours: A Collection of Poems by Psychoanalysts.   The Pychoanalytic Review 99:6 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.