Note: Our Poetry Editor, Irene Willis, will be reading from her new  book, REMINDER, at The BookStore in  Lenox, MA, on Thursday, July 23rd, at 7:00 p.m.  Admission free.

Click Here to Read:  Review of: Quiet Desperation ‘The Wherewithal,’ by Philip Schultz By Adam Plunkett in The New York Times on MARCH 14, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Philip Schultz’s ‘The Wherewithal’ has poetic logic: Philip Schultz’s novel in verse ‘The Wherewithal’ is about Henryk, who says his life includes the Jedwabne pogrom and the Zodiac killer but whose chronology doesn’t line up By David L. Ulin in Los Angeles Times Book Critic on February 07, 2014. Continue reading June Poetry Monday: Philip Schultz’s The Wherewithal

Our Poetry Editor, Irene Willis, is on book leave until September, but will be recommending some articles that should be relevant to our readers.  Here is one of them.

Click Here to Read:   Examining the Poetry of Confession and Autobiography: After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography by Edward Byrne on the Valparaiso Poetry Review website.

Click Here to Read:  Poetry Kept My Patient Alive By Ruth H. Livingston in The New York Times on May 23, 2015.

Guido Scarabottolo

Click Here to Read:  Poetry by Arnold Richards and Arlene Kramer Richards in The American Psychoanalyst Spring/Summer 2015 Volume 49, No. 2, p. 15.

First, Mihaela Moscaliuc, an assistant professor of English at Monmouth University and teacher in the low-residency MFA Program in poetry and poetry in translation at Drew University, has done us the great favor of bringing into English the poems of Romanian poet Carmelia Leonte.  Moscaliuc herself is Romanian by birth, but now writes in English.  This stunning book, The Hiss of the Viper, ( Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014), contains poems in a voice like none we have ever heard or read before, as well as a valuable introduction by Moscaliuc. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: May 4, 2015

Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks

This, as you all know, is Poetry Month, a time when many readers may, we always hope, at least glance through a book of poetry or even take one up to the cash register. It’s also a year when, looking back, we realize how many fine poets, well-known and lesser-known, we have lost recently – almost an entire “greatest generation.” Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 6, 2015

Click Here to Read: Philip Levine (1928–2015): A poet of working class life and struggle By Dorota Niemitz and Matthew Brennan on the World Socialist Web Site on March 5, 2015.

Phillip Levine, September 2006, photo by David Shankbone

Jill Stein

Happy March, everyone! I wish it were Happy Spring, and I hope you’re not still buried in snow as we are here in the Northeastern U.S. It’s hard to believe that Daylight Saving Time begins March 8.

Our poet today is Jill Stein, who lives in the vicinity of Princeton, New Jersey,practices as an individual and couple’s therapist, and is a long-time member of U.S.1 Poets & Writers Cooperative, where I first became acquainted with her work.  She has M.S. and is in a wheelchair, which Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: March 2, 2015

 Jan Hutchinson

 We have a most unusual poet for you today.  Jan Hutchinson is a lifelong student of poetry who has lived for over thirty years in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, where she raised three daughters and worked for many years at Bard College at Simon’s Rock.  The unusual thing about her is her writing method.  Poetry,for Jan Hutchinson, is a daily practice which in many ways resembles a Continue reading POETRY MONDAY:  February 2, 2015