I’m off for Louisiana for a crawfish boil despite my allergy to crawfish. It’s a five...
poetry
Sometimes I feel bad for people who don’t speak English and are stuck calling their master lyricists...
Today’s poet is Paul Lawrence Dunbar, a man called “poet laureate of the Negro race,” by Booker...
Would Steinbeck’s Grapes have passed this Rowling Test? Or George & Lenny’s discov’ry that the best Laid...
It's hard to imagine a poet having more professional success and personal tragedy than Longfellow, and yet...
On Daniel Swift's journey into Saint Elizabeth's mental hospital with Ezra Pound.
Meaning and context take a backseat as the language police round up another suspect.
Picture, if you will, that you are not overly familiar with live poetry reading, and gave it...
Old poetry is laden with the baggage of centuries of hidden metaphor and archaic references. New poetry...
Tinkering with some verse, leaving nothing to chance.
A poem for Paris.
What do anthologies do to the experience of reading poetry? And what makes a poem a...
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Must be in haiku
Jaybird reads "i thank You God for most this amazing" as he tries to tackle e e...
What's the saddest poem ever written? With a couple candidates.
An original poem, written by a lawyer during a particularly challenging day at court.
Original poetry by Dale Forguson.
Original poetry by Dale Forguson
It is September, which means—inevitably—that I find myself thinking about Paul Celan’s “Todesfugue,” this time (the first...
Rostand’s second poem from Les Musardises, entitled “The Bedroom.” For my English translation I chose rhymed couplets,...
