Direct Correlation | Scott Thomas Outlar

 Today I’m delighted to share a folio of poems by Dora Malech.  Dora Malech is the author of three books of poetry: Shore Ordered Ocean, published by The Waywiser Press in 2009; Say So, published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2011; and, most recently, Stet, selected by Susan Stewart for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets…

The front window-sills of houses In Noe Valley, San Francisco’s High-end suburb on the hill Above the Mission, Are galleries for Placards these days. Held fast to pane glass with Scotch Tape Are tack-board admonishments To neighbours unnerved by The continued march of Corona, Bearing words that soothe: EVERYTHING WILL BE OK. WE WILL SURVIVE….

gold gossamer wings shared life of privileged bliss feather melts away —– small little green tree hardened tempests have all lost rooted much deeper —– Baja timeless spent dryness within challenges still waterless times —– character lost there partake of sensual sky Night in Joshua Tree The post Four Haiku by Ken Allan Dronsfield appeared…

* Louis Untermeyer, A Concise Treasure of American Poetry (Pocket Books). A peerless one-volume introduction to American poetry. Untermeyer’s biographical notes and comments are exemplary. See the note on William Cullen Bryant. * The New American Poetry edited by Donald Allen (Grove Press). In the 1960s battle of the anthologies, Allen’s — which represented the counter-cultural, adversarial,…

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A brief reading of Emily Dickinson’s We Grow Accustomed to the Dark. We grow accustomed to the Dark — When light is put away — As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To witness her Goodbye — A Moment — We uncertain step For newness of the night — Then — fit our Vision to…