Category Archives: Poetry

There is in D.G. Jones A Throw of Particles a poem called “Heavens”. It is a short poem but it opens up to words beyond. It begins with stars and carries on in opportunities of conversation that are ironically circumscribed. … Continue reading →

You take a bite out of the poem and swallow these delicious rhymes. We build great ships plan great, precise, arcing journeys, yearning, yearning to change, fly out of our green, nibbling little lives, to touch, enter be that brightness. … Continue reading →

Dr. Selia Karsten marries the world of art and pedagogy. She has a keen design interest in stars. See http://www.astralsite.com/. With her in mind I collect mentions of stars in the poems I read. For example Amy Lowell’s epithet “comrades … Continue reading →

The context is an examination of the resources of lyric poetry. We are proposed to consider the genesis of the erotic zones and not simply the acquisition of language but the situatedness of the linguistically-inflected subject and the development of … Continue reading →

In and Out: A Confessional Poem by Daryl Hine opens its second section with a description of the less than pristine melting of accumulated snow and debris. Instantaneous Spring had attacked Montreal overnight like a laxative, loosening snow from the … Continue reading →

Honor Moore included this short poignant piece in the American Poets Project selected poems by Amy Lowell. A Decade When you came, you were like red wine and honey, And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. … Continue reading →

At first I thought there was a missing “d” so strong was the tow of the next line and the speeding eye — an avoidance of where we find ourselves. as if the thinking could bring me where death is … Continue reading →