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Liberties of the Imagination: Poems by Joseph Harrison, commentary by Mary Jo Salter [part 5 of 5]
It’s my fifth and last day of presenting some of my favorite poems by Joseph Harrison. I can’t represent all of his signature themes or inspirations, but one of them is flight: there’s a…
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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Pantheon [by Jim Cummins]
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert thumb a ride in the 1934 rom-com "It Happened One Night" A while back I posted a piece about how “immortality” had nothing to do with the future, but…
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Dancing history, art and color to another state of mind [By Tracy Danison]
Aurélie Gandit, “Visite dansée, retable d’Isenheim”, Musée d’Unterlinden. Photo © Cie Callicarpa The retable d’Isenheim, the “Isenheim altarpiece”, is made up of three folded layers that open out to depict scenes of the…
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Mick Imlah, 1956-2009
On January 12, 2009, the English poet and editor Mick Imlah died at age 52. He was the author of two books, Birthmarks (1988) and The Lost Leader (2008). After graduating from Oxford with…
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Liberties of the Imagination: Poems by Joseph Harrison, commentary by Mary Jo Salter [part 4 of 5]
Today’s poem by Joseph Harrison employs one of the oldest poetic forms, the ballad, to take on the tragic subject of an early death by a beloved contemporary. OH When Love herself came to…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: January 17, 2024
Today’s offering is by Cassandra Atherton, an Australian prose poet and scholar. Her poem below is from the first issue of The Mackinaw which “celebrate(s) prose poetry, in the present as well as its…
