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Poetry and Meditation: A Week of Reflections [by Abby E. Murray]
“Have you murdered anyone in the last day, week, month, year, decade? Probably not. Then don’t worry about it. Give yourself a break. You’re probably a really fine person.” – Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind…
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Abby E. Murray, Guest Author January 12-16
Klocke Photography This week we welcome Abby E. Murray as our guest author. Abby has moved around the country for the past ten years, working in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, and now New…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in Conversation with Caryl Pagel, Editor of Rescue Press
NA: Tell me about Rescue Press. What makes it unique? And what inspired the name? CP: Rescue Press is an independent small press that publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art experiments, and hybrid work. It…
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Bringing Broken Things to the Dance [by Daniel Westover]
On Wednesday I quoted Elizabeth Bishop who, in a letter to Marianne Moore, describes her awareness of insistent, disparate objects. Unhappy with nearly everything she has written, Bishop despairs, but she finds reason to…
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“Posing Questions to the Universe” [by Tony Leuzzi]
<<In his redoubtable essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” T. S. Eliot wrote, “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his…
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‘List, list, O, list!’ [by Daniel Westover]
Yesterday I mentioned Gerard Manley Hopkins’s habit of making word lists, and this has got me thinking about poems that list and poems that are lists. There are, of course, those sweeping, anaphoric, Whitmanic…
