-
Tempus fugit, or Late August [by Moira Egan]
(Seamus Heaney & Damiano Abeni, Casa delle Letterature, May, 2013) Blackberry-Picking for Philip Hobsbaum Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At…
-
DRIVE: Car Poems [Kelle Groom]
Greenery, Atlantic Center for the Arts Three years ago, I moved the contents of my house into a storage unit, and left to live and write in a number of places I’d never been…
-
JAMES MERRILL’S HOUSE: A TENANCY [Kelle Groom]
James Merrill The year I was born, when I was less than two weeks old, celebrated poet James Merrill published his poem, “A Tenancy” in Poetry. It would appear the next year in his…
-
WHAT CAN POETRY DO? Part 2 [Kelle Groom]
For the last three years, I’ve been traveling and writing about the subjects of fear and living with uncertainty. This month I’m in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, glad to be in residence…
-
The American Scholar’s Next Line, Please: The Tanka in Toto
In last week's Next Line, Please contest, judge David Lehman invited readers to write a two-line stanza, or "tanka" to build on Paul Breslin’s winning haiku from the previous week. Here's what Lehman has…
-
WHAT CAN POETRY DO? Part 1 [Kelle Groom]
Earlier this month, I read Edward Hirsch’s New Yorker interview on the death of his son and on Hirsch’s process of writing about his son’s life and about losing him. He began with the facts,…
