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One Leaf (by Yu Xian)
Yu Xian lives in Jinan, Shandong Province. In 2004 she was named "one of the top ten women poets" in China. Born in 1969 she is married to the poet and painter Lei Sun.…
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The Beggar, the Baker …. and the Schmuck (by Mitch Sisskind)
The Kalashnikover Rebbe shares a favorite tale. (I mix up beggar with baker at one point. Oy!)
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Missing Trios
— some variations on a Mongolian verse form the dream that is missing from my sleep the sleep that is missing from my bed the bed that is missing from my cloud the meaning…
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Ammons 2: Ezra and Elbert [by Roger Gilbert]
Archie Ammons’s much-loved poem "Easter Morning" begins with an oblique reference to one of the formative events of his childhood: I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished:…
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Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, d. 2008
Really a creative person — Nice video about her —
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The Three Miracles: a Mongolian verse form
The Mongolian poet G. Mend Oyoo introduced me to a Mongolian verse form known as "the Universe's three" or "the three miracles." The form consists of three lines (a "triplicit") in parallel syntactical structure.…
