The thing that I love about erasure poetry is how interactive it can (and should!) be with the original work it is pulling from. I think,… Read more ““My Face Resembles / The One Reflected in the Water”: Reading David Dodd Lee’s And Others, Vaguer Presences”
Tag: Reading Poetry
Reading David Dodd Lee
Happy Sunday, all! As fellow readers, book lovers, and writers, I know you have authors and books in your back pocket that you find yourself returning to… Read more “Reading David Dodd Lee”
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”
“Black Light / Her Name in a Cup”: Scenes & Impressions: Reading David Dodd Lee’s Animalities
David Dodd Lee has been there with me since the beginning—not since the beginning of my reading and loving poetry, but of my writing poetry and… Read more ““Black Light / Her Name in a Cup”: Scenes & Impressions: Reading David Dodd Lee’s Animalities”
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: 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”