from “Hunting Manual” by Eleanor Wilner

from her book Shekhinah from “Hunting Manual” …But the hard prey is the one that won’t come bidden. By these signs you will know it: when you lift your lure out of the water, the long plastic line will be missing its end: the lure and the hook will be gone, and the line will [...]

Read Full Post »

on Adrienne

from Hugh MacDiarmid’s manifesto “The Kind of Poetry I Want,” quoted by Adrienne in her speech/essay “Poetry and Commitment.” A poetry the quality of which Is a stand made against intellectual apathy, Its material founded, like Gray’s, on difficult knowledge And its metres those of a poet Who has studied Pindar and Welsh poetry, But, [...]

Read Full Post »

Poetry Wednesday: “Jerusalem” by Naomi Shihab Nye

Read Full Post »

Poetry Wednesday – “The Kiss” by Anne Sexton

Poetry Wednesday – “The Kiss” by Anne Sexton from the anthology intimate kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure, edited by Wendy Maltz

Read Full Post »

Poetry Wednesday “Anatomy Lesson” by Jan Heller Levi

Read Full Post »

Poetry Wednesday – “Parting the Red Sea” by Ellie Schoenfeld

From Ellie Schoenfeld’s collected poems The Dark Honey If someone asks me what I believe in, I say, “tulips.”

Read Full Post »

Poetry Wednesday – a new form!

From a writer I met at dinner on Monday night, a form I’ve never seen. She calls it a “haiku chase”—a series of interlocked haiku, with the third line one becoming the first line of the next and the last line of the very last one repeating the very first first line. It’s like a [...]

Read Full Post »

Poetry Monday

Over at Roaring Out, it’s Poetry Monday, featuring a poem by Tamara Madison from Wild Domestic Watch the video here

Read Full Post »

Announcing – Poetry Wednesdays!

Because I love my friend Michelle’s feature “Poetry Mondays,” in which she reads aloud a poem she loves, I’m announcing Poetry Wednesdays, starting with this piece by Mary Oliver. Enjoy! And if you should be moved to start a Poetry Tuesday (or Folksong Tuesday or Great Choral piece Tuesday), let me know and I’ll post [...]

Read Full Post »

Poetry Monday by Michelle Ovalle – Neruda (or On How a Love Poem is Done)

From my friend and sister-poet over at Roaring Out, her reading in Spanish and English of Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet 17. Enjoy! Neruda Sonnet 17

Read Full Post »