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Making Your Way in Poetry without an MFA (by Sonja Johanson)
My first morning at Bread Loaf, our workshop leader asked if everyone was familiar with the Iowa workshop model. I raised my hand. “I’ve never taken any kind writing class or workshop in my…
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Sonja Johanson, Guest Author October 10-14
This week we welcome Sonja Johanson as our guest author. Sonja is president of the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association. She is a contributing editor at the Found Poetry Review, and the author of Impossible Dovetail…
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For Autumn: Poems by Latino/a/xs: Steven Cordova
LYCANTHROPES IN LOVE by Steven Cordova The first man is in a chair, his barber behind himshaving the hairs off the back of his neck. There's another, a second man:He's in the…
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In Favor of Thomas Traherne [by David Lehman]
The blessed babe in a divine Eden is a Romantic trope, but it received a pure exposition long before the age of Blake and Wordsworth. A shoemaker’s son from Hereford, Thomas Traherne (1636-1674) captured…
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The thousand million happinesses of Léon Blum, once prime minister
Series 1, Part 2: On whether she comes running at the snap of my fingers, the bonheur of Fifi here-below, the righteous rage of the Ohio-soul, a woman’s wrath, the true niceties of human…
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Poetry And Parenting [by Carlie Ramer]
I am somebody’s mother. I wear that fact like a favorite dress. For a long time, there was mud or sand on the hem, and I wore that happily as well. Finger paint smudges…
