I dreamed I called you on the telephone to say: Be kinder to yourself but you were sick and would not answer The waste of my love goes on this way trying to save you from yourself I have always wondered about the left-over energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill long after… [Read more…]
March 20, 2012
In my New York Journal of Books review I compare Jonathan Galassi’s new book Left-Handed: Poems to the movie Beginners and recommend it “to all poetry lovers and to all readers who find they must radically change their lives in order to live more authentically.” via examiner.com
July 6, 2011
“Vultures” by Chinua Achebe In the greyness and drizzle of one despondent dawn unstirred by harbingers of sunbreak a vulture perching high on broken bones of a dead tree nestled close to his mate his smooth bashed-in head, a pebble on a stem rooted in a dump of gross feathers, inclined affectionately to hers. Yesterday… [Read more…]
June 26, 2011
Read the poem on kaffeinkatmandu.tumblr.com A poem I wrote two years ago that was just published on kaffe in katmandu, an arts/literature blog. Were I writing this poem now I would substitute the word “climaxing” for “ejaculating” since men without prostate glands do not ejaculate. When I fully recover from my prostate surgery I hope to… [Read more…]
May 28, 2011
“…I walk through the tall grass of Russian syllables, where colons and commas are abundant in June, and syntax is vague on ladybugs’ wings…” Poems by Russian-American poet Irina Mashinski on stosvet.net
April 5, 2011
Read the article on examiner.com New York publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, is publishing a selection of Leonard Cohen’s poems and songs in its Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets series, a series that includes some of the best loved English language poets. In my New York Journal of Books review of Leonard Cohen Poems and Songs I… [Read more…]
April 3, 2011
April 03, 2011 Paul Violi 1944-2011 We are sad to report that our beloved friend Paul Violi died yesterday after months of contending with pancreatic cancer. Paul — a prince of a friend, a generous teacher, an inspiring poet — was perhaps the most consistently inventive poet of a singularly talented generation upon whom the… [Read more…]
March 24, 2011
My review concludes with an expression of gratitude to author Jennifer Grotz for sharing her inner life and its conflicts via her mind’s eye and poet’s ear in The Needle.
March 8, 2011
It is a fortunate coincidence that today is both International Women’s Day and the release date of Marge Piercy‘s The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980-2010 by New York publisher Alfred Knopf. Continue reading on Examiner.com: Marge Piercy’s “The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980-2010″ arrives today – New York NY | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/ny-in-new-york/marge-piercy-s-the-hunger-moon-new-and-selected-poems-1980-2010-arrives-today#ixzz1G2Locgph
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