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The Poet’s Notebook [by Andrew McCarron]
REVIEW OF KYTHE HELLER’S FIREBIRD Last August, I read Kythe Heller’s new book-length poem, Firebird (Arrowsmith Press, 2020), in a single sitting. Inspired by Sufi mysticism and by traumatic and kairotic events from her own life,…
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“On the Cards and Dice” [by Walter Raleigh, with commentary by David Lehman]
Before the sixth day of the next new year,Strange wonders in this kingdom shall appear:Four kings shall be assembled in this isle,Where they shall keep great tumult for awhile.Many men then shall have an…
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Love’s Philosophy [by Percy Bysshe Shelley]
Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river,And the rivers with the ocean;The winds of heaven mix foreverWith a sweet emotion;Nothing in the world is single;All things by a law divineIn another's being mingle–Why…
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About Alice, me & every body: difference and disability [by Tracy Danison]
As a spectator, for me Mickaël Phelippeau’s "De Françoise à Alice" happens especially around ‘intimacy’: looking (both ways), feeling (both ways), touching (both ways), talking (both ways)… Photo©FRAL_Philippe Savoir We’ve all been getting booster…
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“Request to a New Year” by Judith Wright [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Judith Wright was one of Australia's foremost literary figures of the 20th Century, and one of only two Australian poets (alongside AD Hope) to be considered for a Nobel Prize in literature. Her passion…
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“Palliative” [by Joyce Carol Oates]
1. Hate hope!Arsenic for weekswe’d taken in micro-dropson credulous tongues. Hope the thingwith noisome wingsclatteringabout our headswith a broom at last swatted to earth. Stomped, smashed. Now, clarity of silence.Only the drip of minimal liquids—saline,…
