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A Silver Scruple and a Famous Dog (by Karen Steinmetz)
Emily Dickinson’s beloved Newfoundland Carlo does not appear often in her poems, but it is Carlo Dickinson refers to most often as her great companion in her letters…
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Dog Dreams (by Karen Steinmetz)
Since it is mid-January, pouring rain, and I find myself writing about dogs as familiars and about their inevitable loss, I begin with a refrain from “Dog Dreams,” a sardonic song by Jonatha Brooke…
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Karen Steinmetz, Guest Author January 11-15
This week we welcome Karen Steinmetz as our guest author. Karen is a poet and novelist. Her poems have appeared in The Cortland Review, Coal Hill Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, So…
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Derrick Brown of Write Bloody Publishing
DD: The entry for “American Poetry” in an old edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics reads: “The often idiosyncratic strength, boldness, and ambition of American poetry derives from two interrelated factors: its…
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I Don’t Like Poetry, I’m Not a Poetry Person [by Tara Skurtu]
Every time I hear someone say I don’t like poetry, or I’m not a poetry person, I think the opposite is true. I believe everyone is a poetry person. Poetry is just a form…
