The Wrecking Light
Most of us know about Emily Dickinson (and Maya Angelou!). But who are today's best and brightest new poets? We asked the poetry lovers at the National Book Critics Circle to weigh in on their choices for 2012, right before the institution's celebrated awards ceremony, which honors the best books of the year.
Donte Collins, 2017.
April is National Poetry Month. In celebration, West Hollywood city poet Steven Reigns has decorated the lampposts of Santa Monica Boulevard with lines of poetry from 22 contemporary poets.
About Intruder From acclaimed poet Jill Bialosky: a haunting series of poems about the dangers of eros and the creation of art, “as intense and perfectly noted as violin concertos” ( Booklist).
I can't speak for the world of big publishers, but as a small (well, ok, micro) press publisher in the business for over 20 years, I get amazing things in the mail with a fair amount of regularity. The book pictured above may, however, take the cake for all-time surprises. The incomparable Wayne Hogan, artist and poet extraordinaire, put together a book of his own artwork that has graced the covers and interiors of Lilliput Review for a good part of those 20 years. And it is amazing. I am not going to waste your time trying to describe what he has done - I'm going to show you (for maximum enjoyability, click each image to enlarge): What we have here is 32 pages jam-packed with the kind of joy only Wayne Hogan can communicate with the tip of pen and a whole bundle of talent. His work, while often levitating, nonetheless has kept this mag grounded for all these years and I am eternally grateful for that. I asked Wayne if this was a limited run and he said no, but at the moment there are a handful of copies available. Here's the details: The chap sells for $11.56, which includes postage, and I'm nothing if not prompt in sending things out when I get a request---within no more than 2 days, barring drastically unforeseen circumstances. So there you have it - fantastic art at a very reasonable rate. Mail payment to "Wayne Hogan", little books press, PO Box 842, Cookeville, TN 38503. One final note on the chap; it comes complete with a bevy of blurbs, which were quite a delightful surprise to me. Here's the back cover: click to enlarge The quotes are all genuine, coming from various issues his work has appeared in. Perhaps, I need to reel in my effusiveness. It could become ubiquitous. Then again, perhaps not. --------------------------- This week's feature poem comes from Lilliput Review, #145. This morning, I'm particularly struck by this poem as I've been preparing for a poetry discussion session next month on Walt Whitman: Father Walt. One of the poems I'm considering covering is "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life," a poem that captures him during one of his infrequent downside moments. The tone of this week's poem, "Ebb and Flow" by Robbie Gamble, is distantly related to Whitman's and called it to mind immediately. There is something about the pensiveness, the taking stock, we humans seem to do on returning to the ocean, that is captured in these works, as well as E. E. Cummings "maggie and millie and mollie and may." I will follow Robbie's poem with one of my favorite modern haiku that I use when doing introductory classes, a poem by Peggy Heinrich. Ebb and Flow my beloved strides the water's edge trailing her pain in a wake I sit on the lip of the boardwalk walking up with the turning tide, trying to imagine what she passes through each of us is pulling toward something new as water pushes on the skin of the earth how miraculous, to both be warmed by the same sun-soft air Robbie Gamble Peggy's poem is so brief and so simple that it contains the world entire: ebb tide turning to look back at my footprints Peggy Heinrich And, finally, we continue to think very often of our friends in that land of the sea, Japan. Here is Issa, touching a deep, deep chord: mother I never knew, every time I see the ocean, every time. Issa translated by David G. Lanoue best, Don PS Get 2 free issues Get 2 more free issues Lillie poem archive Go to the LitRock web site for a list of all 95 songs Hear all 95 at once on the the LitRock Jukebox Subscribe to Lilliput Review
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Published by O Books in October 2006 ISBN 1905047940 Price £29.99/$59.95 Paperback Publisher’s Outline This includes the poems in A White Radiance and new works since 1994, including A Dandelion Clock, new lyrics, 1994-2005; Summoned by Truth, 2000-2005 (see below); and Groans of the Muses, 2005. There are 30 volumes in all, with Notes …
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of POETRY magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
It’s Monday! What are you reading? Each week I share a reading photo of the week. This one is my favourite this week. One child. A new book. Time standing still as he wasn’t going to move until that b
In this volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous, ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees as happiness. Like an alchemist of old, she transmutes experiences, perceptions, and perspectives into something richer and rarer despite the passage of years and … Continue reading "The Alchemy of Happiness"
In this major new book of poems, her seventh, Robin Morgan rewards us with the award-winning mastery we've come to expect from her poetry. Her gaze is unflinching, her craft sharp, her mature voice rich with wry wit, survived pain, and her signature chord: an indomitable celebration of life. This powerful collection contains the now-famous poems Morgan reads in her TED Talk--viewed online more than a million times and translated into 24 languages. Dark Matter is an unforgettable book.
Lola Haskins propels the reader through the inevitable terrains of desire, love and loss.
