Toi Derricotte: My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: “Speak the unspeakable.”
My father taught me:
You have to break the bones
To get to the heart
August 9, 2024 · 12 Comments
Sam Hamill: Poetry, Politics, and Zen
If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves of birch struggling toward April, then we would know. — … Continue reading
September 3, 2017 · 12 Comments
Ed Ochester: Poetry
I too dislike it the mystified truisms the dusty puzzle-prunes the theatrical exaggerations: “the brutal crescendo of woodworms”— yet I think of O’Hara’s delight in the endless pleasures of quotidian … Continue reading
March 4, 2015 · Leave a comment
Video: Galway Kinnell recites “The Bear”
Thomas Jefferson College International Poetry Festival in 1973. Galway Kinnell reciting “The Bear” Galway Kinnell 1927-2014
October 30, 2014 · 2 Comments
