Category Archives: Poetry

In memory one puts a period. All we have in this country is landscape, Granite shivering with light[.] That is where memory stops. But there is more (always more): All we have in this country is landscape, Granite shivering with … Continue reading →

Phil Hall The Oak Hunch ends with a sequence called “Index of First Lines” which opens with a discourse on missionaries, islands and the nature of words which leads to an image of the poet manifesting stigmata in a very … Continue reading →

The contrast is set up between those seeking warmth, a multitude, and the skater, a lone figure. Coffee drinkers fill the hut with steam; They warm themselves within against the cold That creaks without and circumvents the light, While Mr. … Continue reading →

Ever wonder how best to celebrate the character and accomplishments of a great literary figure? Here is a praise poem for Northrop Frye found in Endeared by Dark: The Collected Poems of George Johnston. It was written on the occasion … Continue reading →

I would perhaps not have been so sensitive to these lines by George Johnston if I was not aware of the work of Marlene Goldman on dementia and stigma, Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease in Canada. […] … Continue reading →

Moon in puddle Zen trope is here at play, I believe, in the very reflective white space between stanzas. But here the moon is pluralized — each moment of perception offering its own. I will not refuse the moons you … Continue reading →

If you are entitled to one line to ponder for a day … what else is a river but the promise of a text Liz Howard “Foramen Magnum” in Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent And so for day 2224 … Continue reading →

This set could be extended in imitation of Erasmus’s De Copia. But it’s power comes from its limited triplicate form and the tactical placement of line breaks. Love the person not the police report. The wrists not the weapon, the … Continue reading →

In Live Courage, using the footer section of the pages, Priscilla Uppal constructs the emulation of a news crawl in which she threads excerpts from Homer’s Odyssey translated by Richard Lattimore with various online and print news sources. The effect … Continue reading →