my cinders of sorrow left to bloom with tulips in the rain.
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my cinders of sorrow left to bloom with tulips in the rain.
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Campbell McGrath’s Fever of Unknown Origin was published on May 9 by Penguin Random House. The title poem takes place as the speaker fights a long illness and is in a hospital right before Christmas. Here is an excerpt: The bad news is that I am periodically blind in one of those otherwise excellent eyes,…
“If You Were The Only Girl In The World” from By The Light Of The Silvery Moon (1953) Related Stories A Brief Digression on Critics and Cops [by David Lehman] Go to Source Author: The Best American Poetry
Happy new year to everyone dearwhose names belong to your alphabet song:To A and H, J and K, B and C, D and E,G,P, T and V.F and L, M and N, S, and X and Z, W,Q,and U, R,I,Y and O.Play them on your own pirate station radio. Start the next 365 days with…
Today I wanted to give a shout out to The Unsung Masters Series, which brings forgotten poets to a whole new audience. The most recent volume is about Bert Meyers (1928-1979), a poet new to me. Edited by Dana Levin and Adele Williams, the book reprints poems from Meyers’ out-of-print volumes alongside commentary by critics,…
Take this out, this spite, this hatred, this venom, take out those guns, don’t spit fire in a messy world, talk to the child, ever so mildly, wrench books out of hand oh unforgiving masters, dispense with justice, don’t split the atom, talk about disarmament in closeted rooms sign papers and let the table talk…
Peter Johnson’s While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems was just published by MadHat Press. Johnson has long been a champion of the prose poem, twisting and working it into hilarious truths. Russell Edson, in fact, coined his certain kind of prose poem as “The Peter Johnson Prose Poem.” Johnson’s advocacy of the form—his…