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Motherhood poems – Rachel Barenblat
The first poems I read after my son was born were by Heid E. Erdrich (sister to the novelist Louise.) My friend Tisha Turk (author of Getting Out Alive) sent me a copy of…
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Latino Poets Stake their Claim in American Letters [by Emma Trelles]
There is always a destination, by Miami-based painter John Sanchez. In Handling Destiny, his third book of poems, Adrian Castro examines the Yoruba idea that the course of a life is pre-determined, and only through faith is…
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Obsessions – Rachel Barenblat
Hello all! It's good to be back. This week you'll be getting a grab-bag of posts about some of my current obsessions — some poems and poets among them. Of course, any list of…
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To Donald Keene
To Donald Keene To Donald Keene weowe much of what we know ofJapan's verse and prose. In shadow of rising sunstood the lean tree unobserved. Then Keene could be heardin accents lucid and keenrendering…
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Rachel Barenblat, Guest Blogger October 17-23
This week we welcome Rachel Barenblat as our guest blogger. Rachel is a student in the ALEPH rabbinic program (though not for much longer; she will be ordained a rabbi in January of 2011)…
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Brian Clements Presents a Poem by Charles Kesler
A Traveling Monk Observes I have noticed in my travels that people do not put Kleenex out for guests. They do not even put out trash cans to put the Kleenex in that…
