Click Here to Read: Sigmund Freud BY W.H. Auden on the New Republic Website on October 6, 1952.
Click Here to Read: In Memory of Sigmund Freud by W. H. Auden on the Poets.org website.
Category: Poetry
Poetry Monday February 3, 2013: Cynthia Gardner
Cynthia Gardner
Cynthia Gardner’s poems have been published in a number of literary journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, and The Bridge, and in anthologies such as Crossing Paths: An Anthology of Poems by Women (Mad River Press, 2002). Her first collection, a chapbook, How Will They Find Me, was published by Finishing Line Press last year, with a fine oil painting of her own on the cover. Continue reading Poetry Monday February 3, 2013: Cynthia Gardner
Wants by Philip Larkin
Poetry Monday: Jim Kelleher
POETRY MONDAY: January 7, 2013
Jim Kelleher
Happy New Year, everyone! We’re beginning the year with something unusual – parts of a drama in verse, which can be read either as a novel or performed as a play. I do hope we have the opportunity in the near future to see it performed, because it’s quite wonderful. Continue reading Poetry Monday: Jim Kelleher
Eight Are Charged With Chilean Singer’s 1973 Murder After Military Coup
Click Here to Read: Eight Are Charged With Chilean Singer’s 1973 Murder After Military Coup By Pascale Bonnefoy in The New York Times on December 28, 2012/
Click Here to Read: Victor Jara (1932–1973) He died on September 16 1973 on this website. Includes audio of Victor Jara singing Cigarritoand Arlo Guthrie singing about Victor Jara’s and Letter to Someone Who Said It Was Necessary, Poem about Victor Jara by Arlene Kramer Richards.
Click Here To Read: Chile reburies coup victim and singer Jara on this Website.
From the Poetry Editor: An Interjection in Time of Mourning
From the Poetry Editor: An Interjection in Time of Mourning
I don’t need to remind you of what poetry does to help us live our lives; I know you know that very well indeed. But here is an interjection of my own, at a time when we are simultaneously mourning the horrific recent gun deaths and trying to rally ourselves to activity and legislation.
I know something about guns. Shocking as it seems to me now, I participated regularly in target practice, with a 22 rifle, at summer camp when I was ten Continue reading From the Poetry Editor: An Interjection in Time of Mourning
Poem by Megan Baer McKamy – social worker from Topeka Kansas
Pops from big kid roman candles cut across the time zones
narratives of personal surface burn and itchy imbedded metal scraps
sparklers tested by tiny fingers consequences of curiosity about what happens
when something gets too close or we…
get too close to something Continue reading Poem by Megan Baer McKamy – social worker from Topeka Kansas
POETRY MONDAY: December 3, 2012: Chris Goodrich
Christopher Goodrich
Widely praised by senior poets, Pushcart Prize nominee Christopher Goodrich’s first full-length collection, Nevertheless, hello, was published by Steel Toe Books in 2009. A chapbook, By Reaching, was brought out by Finishing Line Press in 2007. His poems have also appeared in journals such as The New York Quarterly, Cider Press Review, The Sycamore Review and many others. The recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize as well as an Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: December 3, 2012: Chris Goodrich
Irene Willis & Richard Lipez Reading at the Good Purpose Gallery & Starving Artist Café
China’s Nobels
Click Here to Read: China’s Nobels By Larry Seims and Jeffrey Yang in The New York Times on October 17, 2012.
From Poem by Liu Xiaobo:
In memory and bravery
this day lives forever
It is an immortal stone
and though stone, can cry out
It is the grave’s wild grass growing eternal green
and though wild grass, it can take flight
The blade-tip that pierces the heart’s center drips
with the blood of snowbright memory