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Quote of the Week: Fulke Greville
Aldous Huxley chose these lines of the English Renaissance poet Fulke Greville as the epigraph for the 1928 novel Point Counter Point: Oh, wearisome condition of humanity!Borne under one Law, to…
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A Trip to “Tintern Abbey” [by David Lehman]
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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Emily Dickinson 3 [by Mitch Sisskind]
As a word-lover she loved gamahuche,Gamahuching, will be (was) gamahuched,Or in a sentence: The bee gamahuched The flowers. She marveled at the beesEntering daffodils enveloped by sunlightRefracted through tender golden petals:Surely Solomon in all his…
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“Perfidia”: the song (sung by Helen Forrest & by Linda Ronstadt) and the poem
Perfidia You don’t know who these people are, or whatThey’ll do to you if you’re caught, but you can’tBack out now: it seems you agreed to carryA briefcase into Germany, and here you are,Glass…
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When Bad Lines Happen to Good Poems [by Laurence Goldstein]
If you were empowered by the gods to travel back into the canon of poetry in English and change or delete one line, which would it be? On occasions, sometimes years apart, I’ve put this query…
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Billy Marshall Stoneking [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Billy Marshall Stoneking was born in Florida and grew up on military bases across the US. At the age of twenty-five, he emigrated to Australia with a BA and a postgrad in Education from…
