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A Selection of Contemporary Australian Poems (Week 7): Gig Ryan
The Constant Measure The oven’s tipped open as a bar heaterits red art deco zags another age’sfaith in a designed centuryas a Chevrolet unscrolls up the hilland the painted-from-life steeple’spleated shadows carve out long…
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The Palpable Presence of Time: David Lehman on Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”
It is not difficult to see why some poets from Lord Byron to the present have resisted and sometimes even jeered at William Wordsworth (1770-1850). The refreshing heterodoxy of Wordsworth's youthful verse gave way…
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The Mutual Muse: Playing Is The Thing [by Molly Peacock]
D.W. Winnicott’s marvelous book, Playing and Reality, published in the mid-20th century, describes the intermediate area between external and internal experience where we play. As children play, they define this arena, beginning their relationships…
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Yet Do I Marvel : Black Iconic Poets Of The 20th Century [by Ed Toney]
From left to right: Ross Gay, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Paul Romero (back row); Susan Wheeler, Cornelius Eady, Camille Rankine, Sapphire, Nikky Finney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharon Olds (second row); CK Williams, Toi Derricotte, Gerald…
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Remembering Seamus Heaney: “Gleaning the unsaid off the palpable” by Madge McKeithen
Portrait of Seamus Heaney by Tai-Shan Schierenberg, oil on canvas, 2004. National Gallery of London On Monday, November 11, an overflow crowd gathered in Cooper Union's Great Hall to honor the great poet Seamus…
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Marie Ponsot: Poet, Teacher, Benefactor and Still Against War [by Catherine Woodard]
Exactly one month after she won The Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry in June, Marie Ponsot donated a quarter of that $100,000 check to her alma mater, St. Joseph's College for…
