Karen Morris
Our featured poet today is especially appropriate for these pages. A psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan and Honesdale, PA., Karen Morris specializes in the integration of poetics with clinical work and ethical concerns and has published several papers on this topic in the Psychoanalytic Review. Her paper, “Torture and Attachment: Conscience and the Analyst’s Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: June 4, 2012
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POETRY MONDAY: May 7, 2012
Roberta Feins
Poet Roberta Feins was born inNew Yorkand lives in Seattle, where she works as a computer consultant. She received her MFA in poetry in 2007 from New England College. Her poems, one of which received first prize in the 2010 Women in Judaism Magazine poetry contest, have been published in a number of other fine journals, including Five A.M., Antioch Review, and The Continue reading May Poetry Monday: Roberta Feins
POETRY MONDAY: April 2, 2012
Nina Corwin
Nina Corwin is the author of two books of poetry, The Uncertainty of Maps (CW Books, Spring, 2011) and Conversations With Friendly Demons and Tainted Saints. Her poetry appears or in ACM, Forklift OH, Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review/nor, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review and Verse, and Continue reading Poetry Monday: Nina Corwin
Arnold Richards
It’s no secret – and certainly not to the readers of these pages – that psychoanalysts are deeply interested in poetry. For that reason, our featured poet this month, the Editor-in-Chief of International Psychoanalysis, should not be a total surprise. The best response to a poem, it has been said, is another poem, and Arnold Richards is one whose response to poems is immediate and sensitive.
His professional role is familiar to many of you. Editor of JAPA (Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association) from 1994 to 2003 and the author of numerous books and papers in the field, he is currently a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He was awarded a 2000 Mary F. Sigourney Award and gave the 50th Annual Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: March 5, 2012
POETRY MONDAY : February 6, 2012
Those of us who love poetry – and I assume that’s all of our readers – must have been saddened by the news that we have lost another luminary. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died on February 1 of this year at the age of 88.
There hasn’t been enough time to get permission to re-print her poems or her photo here, but I can recommend a definitive collection of her work. Poems New and Collected 1957-1997, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, won the 1996 PEN Translation Prize and was published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1998. Because she published so few poems in Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 6, 2012
Susan Shaw Sailer
Is there, can there be, anything worse than failure to protect those we have the responsibility to protect? Perhaps what’s worse is making money from that neglect and treating the death of human beings as “collateral damage.” This is Continue reading Poetry Monday: January 2nd, 2012: Susan Shaw Sailer
No photo of a smiling poet and three poems this time. Instead, as the aftermath of a sad November, we are giving you some prose for Poetry Monday: “In Memoriam,” “Déjà vu” and “A Brief Review.”
First, the memorial. One of our finest, belatedly but still insufficiently recognized American poets, Ruth Stone, died on November 19 at the age of 96. Not only as a poet but as a person, she was a marvel. A fan of hers for years, Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: December 5, 2011
Irina Mashinski
I’m pleased to introduce our November poet, a bilingual poet and translator who emigrated from the former Soviet Unionin 1991. Irina Mashinski has authored seven books of poetry in Russian. Her most recent collections are Volk (Wolf) (Moscow: NLO, 2009) and Raznochinets pervyi sneg I drugie stikhotvoreniia (Raznochinets First Snow and Other Poems) (New York: Stosvet Press, 2009). Her work has also appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Poetry International, Fulcrum, Zeek, The Continue reading Poetry Monday November 7. 2011: Irina Mashinski
