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Dispatch From A Distance – Whose Woods [by Cara Benson]
“Land is life – or, at least, land is necessary for life.” Patrick Wolfe “Whose woods these are I think I know” begins the canonized Robert Frost poem about stopping on a horse one…
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Francois Villon, Rascal Poet [by David Lehman]
The original bad-boy poet roamed the countryside of fifteenth-century France. Francois Villon narrowly escaped the gallows; a vagabond and a thief, he cast his major poems in the form of satiric versions of a…
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For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Yesenia Montilla
Eartha Kitt As Muse by Yesenia Montilla The eyes are two saucers filled with every forlorn woman’s last meal: roasted chicken & a good Bordeaux & how the heart is found in the neck’s…
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Karen Sagstetter: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Photo [detail] by Diane MacEachern _______________________________________________________________________ No Crying in Baseball No crying when I struck out swinging.No crying when a runt smashed…
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Emily Alexander Draws an Ace [by Ace Boggess]
REVERENCE AND IRREVERENCE AT THE SAME TIME “Meredith Is Crying and I Am Too” by Emily Alexander http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2019/august/alexander-meredith.html One of the greatest things a poem can do is pull a surprise laugh out of…
