Category Archives: Poetry

Robyn Sarah “Ask the Poem: On Teaching Poetry” Little Eurekas: A Decade’s Thoughts on Poetry To inspire the kids, I brought in sheaves of my own favorite poems to read aloud. Teachers’ jaws dropped at what I passed around to … Continue reading →

Torn from its context and all the better for it: First of all poems aren’t postcards to send home. Anne Sexton Paris Review Interview 1971 Resonates way beyond its context: a response to an interviewer who asked why more poems … Continue reading →

Small cumulative actions… But the fact is that those little signs of care and attention we are all so good at in the early stages don’t become one iota less important with time. William Sieghart The Poetry Pharmacy Returns Introduction … Continue reading →

Here is the ending of a poem by Pia Tafdrup translated from the Danish by David McDuff. […] The body is not national, it passes easily into dreams mountain ranges, rivers and oceans, routes traced by swallows. I want the … Continue reading →

William Stafford “You and Art” via The Analog Sea Number Three opening stanza (and for me what should be the final stanza) Your exact errors make a music that nobody hears. Your straying feet find the great dance, walking alone. … Continue reading →

Etel Adnan Time “At 2 p.m. in the Afternoon” trans. Sarah Riggs a selection … writing comes from a dialogue with time: it’s made of a mirror in which thought is stripped and no longer knows itself The abstraction of … Continue reading →

rob mclennan It’s still winter The cover shows two outlines of denuded trees: one above the title; the other, the author’s name. Perfect for depicting a winterscape. And perfect for such poems: Coffee: ice cold and hours. I have written … Continue reading →