Doug Anderson: Rediscovering our world through poetry
Morning rumination: Hive mind, large and small. Some years ago, having been trained in the tight modernist lyric, the poem that adds up to the neat conclusion, usually with an … Continue reading
Maxine Scates: Wrong Place, Wrong Time
My friend’s sons are driving across the country and I keep thinking, as my friend must think every hour of every day, how they might come to the town where … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Lowlife
I have suffered through one million broken hearts; been slain countless times by convulsions of laughter brought about by the clever absurdity of puns, jokes, and witticisms; kept my … Continue reading
Naomi Shihab Nye: “Letters My Prez Is Not Sending” and “Ted Kooser Is My President”
Naomi Shihab Nye reads two poems at the 2009 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival: “Letters My Prez Is Not Sending” and “Ted Kooser Is My President.” This video is included here by … Continue reading
Ace Boggess: Like All Petitioners He Must Wait
“…Like All Petitioners He Must Wait (How Many Cups of Coffee in an Hour?)” —William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch Waiting for a screwdriver, I sit at the counter sipping … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Power
Not the six fingered queen with her drifting eye but the hot-cheeked scullery maid, breasts resting on the plate of fruit she carries. Not the King, head-soft with syphillis but … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Then I Will Tell You a Story about Blue Butterflies…
Then I Will Tell You a Story about Blue Butterflies That Fly Higher Than Your Heart Rises Just Before a Great Fall These are the towns in Pennsylvania … Continue reading
Mel Packer: Yes, my nation is guilty of torture…
Yes, my nation is guilty of torture, of murder, of discrimination, guilty of waging wars to make campaign donors even richer, guilty of many crimes that I was told in … Continue reading
Ace Boggess: “Do I Look Like I Care?”
“Do I Look Like I Care?” —man on cell in an elevator Under tired Muzak he boasts about infidelity & his lucky double-down bet on a stock … Continue reading
Video: “Life During Wartime” by Talking Heads
From Stop Making Sense. Amanda Ashley says, “This makes me happy.”
Jose Padua: To The Old Man Walking And All the Other Scary People In The World
Today I discovered that the guy I always see walking down my street, a friendly looking old man to whom I’ll nod and wave and who always waves back, is … Continue reading
Chard deNiord: Where And How Blood Was Made
Her son’s dreadful bodies, buried by that mass, drenched the Earth with streams of blood, and they say she warmed it to new life, so that a trace of her … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Poem
Where does love go when we are too old to make love (please not yet)? Is there some wisdom there beneath the thrashing animal? Some sweet silence? — copyright 2014 … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Jump
I’m five, in 1962, jumping over and over from the sofa to the rug in our apartment on the second floor at 19th and S Street, jumping to the orchestral … Continue reading
