Hi friends! It’s been a really long time since I posted or shared work with you, and it bothers me. I’ve still been reading and writing… Read more “A Quiet Return: Spending Time in the Horror Genre”
Category: Reading
Poem of the Day: Ada Limón
Help me turn my mind off. Help me be more than a song. The stress like a crow’s open flame. Help me to not give up… Read more “Poem of the Day: Ada Limón”
Poem of the Day: Kim Addonizio
DARKENING, THEN BRIGHTENING The sky keeps lying to the farmhouse, lining up its heavy clouds above the blue table umbrella, then launching them over the… Read more “Poem of the Day: Kim Addonizio”
Poem of the Day: Kim Dower
HE SAID I WROTE ABOUT DEATH and I didn’t mean to, this was not my intent. I meant to say how I loved the birds,… Read more “Poem of the Day: Kim Dower”
(I’m Back) Poem of the Day: Jack Gilbert
Hi everyone! I know it’s been a while again. But here I am: quiet little me, doing quiet not-so-little things. I’m in the process of starting… Read more “(I’m Back) Poem of the Day: Jack Gilbert”
Poem of the Day: John Ashbery
AT NORTH FARM Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through… Read more “Poem of the Day: John Ashbery”
Poem of the Day: Julie Bruck
—after Philip Larkin TO BRING THE HORSE HOME Is all I’ve wanted past wanting since I was six and delirious with fever, an infinitive… Read more “Poem of the Day: Julie Bruck”
Poem of the Day: Danez Smith
not an elegy for Mike Brown I am sick of writing this poem but bring the boy. his new name his same old body. ordinary,… Read more “Poem of the Day: Danez Smith”
Poem of the Day: Franz Wright
—in the wake of another tragedy: praying for France THOUGHTS OF A SOLITARY FARMHOUSE And not to feel bad about dying. Not to take… Read more “Poem of the Day: Franz Wright”
Poem of the Day: Elizabeth Bradfield
PURSUIT —for Arctic Explorer Donald B. MacMillan Provincetown, September All summer, town kids pose at the edge of the pier named after you and leap.… Read more “Poem of the Day: Elizabeth Bradfield”