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“Drifting Souls” [poem by Robert Schultz / print by Binh Danh]
DRIFTING SOULS This narrow leaf one hand-spanWide contains a landscapePock-marked, cracked, stained tan Like smoke. Within it figures wrappedIn dust stand fixed in sightAs if inside a rifle’s scope. But for now they will…
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“My Life As A Test” — by Mitch Sisskind
This is the most exciting, most challenging project I've ever come up with — a full-length autobiography in the form of an SAT test! As the video clip below explains, I will share all…
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A Modest Meditation on Home [by Eleanor Goodman]
“The perpetual ideal is astonishment,” Derek Walcott writes in the title poem of his painfully beautiful new book White Egrets. I take this to be true and essential in life as well as in…
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When Bad Lines Happen to Good Poems (redux)
A couple of weeks ago, David posted Shelley's astrological profile and in her comment, "Sharon" picked up on David's reference to an especially bad line in one of Shelley's poems. The exchange reminded me…
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Eleanor Goodman, Guest blogger August 15-21
This week we welcome Eleanor Goodman as our guest blogger. We had the good fortune to meet Eleanor during our travels in China a couple of years ago. At the time, she was living…
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Cynthia Arrieu-King
Bird Studies Human Studies Bird "Birds don't sing, they explain. Only people sing."–Kenneth Koch Mary Smith sings about how birds can punish us,studies any in the context of diversion or patterns.Birds that count are…
