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Jorie Graham on prose poems
It’s not just content out of context that creates the character of many of the poems in An Introduction to the Prose Poem. Jorie Graham gets further into this idea in her introduction to The Best American Poetry,…
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Belle of Amherst [by Mitch Sisskind]
1. Put aside the twaddle about herForced upon us in ten thousandBooks and other tedious varieties.Nights in green eyeshadow shePanther-like prowled Amherst'sBack alleys her brain abuzz withWebster's definition of VOLCANOAs a hole or slit…
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“Before the revolution, man oppressed man. After, it was the other way around.”
<< The ferocity and imbecility of an autocratic rule rejecting all legality and in fact basing itself upon complete moral anarchism provokes the no less imbecile and atrocious answer of a purely Utopian…
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Sonnet XLV: Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night [by Samuel Daniel]
XLV Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born: Relieve my languish, and restore the light, With dark forgetting of my cares, return; And let the…
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“Negative Capability” [By David Lehman]
"Negative Capability" from THE COMMON May 5, 2025 Issue 29 Poetry, Poetry By DAVID LEHMAN Imagine the money the Keats estate would have madeif they could have copyrighted “negative capability” and charged permission fees for its use,…
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Cardinal Zen [by Beatrice Leader]
Cardinal Zen took me under his wing.Chicago-born Leo XIV beat the oddsfourteen to one in Vegas defeatingthe Italian candidate, the hot favorite,but remember the old conclave saw"who enters as pope exits as cardinal." As…
