by McKenzie | Nov 9, 2021 | Blog, Poem of the Day Series, Reading
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Let’s enjoy a pair of poems by the wonderful Olena Kalytiak Davis from the incredible 2014 collection, The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems. Enjoy! NOT THIS my god all the days we have lived thrusayingnot thisone, not...
by McKenzie | Jul 28, 2020 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Blog, Poetry Collections, Reviews
Hi everyone! I’m happy to announce my latest review, Angela Voras-Hills’ Louder Birds from Pleiades Press, 2020, is now live at Green Mountains Review! You can read it here! Elizabeth Powell at GMR recommended this book to me and was a true joy to work...
by McKenzie | Jul 7, 2020 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
Happy Tuesday, friends! As I mentioned yesterday, I’m throwing myself back into doing the things I love—and I LOVE celebrating my fellow writers. If you’d like to have one of your works featured, or do a mini-interview with me about your process or...
by McKenzie | Apr 7, 2020 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
DOING LAUNDRY ON SUNDAY So this is the Sabbath, the stillnessin the garden, magnoliasdrying damp bells, petticoats, over the porch rail, while bicyclewheels thrum and the full-breasted tulips open their pink blousesfor the hands that pressed them first as bulbs into...
by McKenzie | Apr 3, 2020 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
WINTER LANDSCAPE, WITH ROOKS Water in the millrace, through a sluice of stone, plunges headlong into that black pond where, absurd and out-of-season, a single swan floats chaste as snow, taunting the clouded mind which hungers to haul the white reflection down. The...
