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Thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here and want to keep up on poetry and 32 Poems, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. We could play a game of “Diagnose the Poet.” The poet feels major exhaustion despite sleeping more than she has in a year. Yesterday, I could sit up […]
Musée des Beaux Arts
W.H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it […]
Galleys are out for the fall issue of 32 Poems. What lovely poets. They all respond so quickly. A huge time savings for me is sending out the galleys via PDF. I want to kiss the people who invented PDFs. Even cooler is that I can send just one page (just the page with the […]
Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.
Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.
I’m no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its […]
New York, NY
The Academy of American Poets seeks a dynamic individual to fill the
role of National Poetry Month Coordinator. National Poetry Month,
established by the Academy in 1996, has become the largest literary
celebration in the world.
The Coordinator will administer the program annually; develop a National
Poetry Month publicity campaign; prepare and distribute press releases
and media kits; liaise […]
This has been one of the most physcially taxing weeks of the past year. Even waking to find my dead cat on the kitchen floor or watching as a tree fell towards our house doesn’t match the surreal experience of three family members in the hospital at the same time or seeing my little niece […]
met Kevin, it was probably at a theatre party in college. Theatre people hugged each other a lot. They were silly, creative, fun. Flash forward and the next time I saw Kevin was rushing through Dulles Airport to catch a flight to the Czech Republic. He was coming home from somewhere.
Kevin knows Kevin Craft. Kevin […]
I’m reading the above book. In it, Ellen Bryant Voight writes:
“The bias against women in publication history, corresponding easily to the cultural bias Mary Ellmann discusses thorughly and wittily, in Thinking About Women, is well documented. In roughly eight hundred years of English literature, only the most recent one hundred have included substantial participation by […]
My sister gave birth to a feisty baby girl — 7 lbs and 10 oz. Unfortunately, she’s in the ICU. I find it hard to find much info on babies in the ICU that are full term. The ICU nurses call her the The Feisty Miss Muffet, because she keeps removing her breathing tube. They’ve […]