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Robert Hershon Presents a Poem by Hettie Jones
This poem by Hettie Jones appears in her most recent poetry collection Doing Seventy. Praise for Marie Ponsot All praise the midweek market,the first-of-the-season sexy zucchinisgazing up from their crowdedboxes All praise the cherries,…
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“A Jar of Wine” [by Elizabeth Howort]
Why not take a jar of wineand each day visit the arch?You can place sandbags at the dooras I wind the stairwell up. The roof opens wide:a stretch of park lengthens.The traffic below is…
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Moon and River [by Emma Trelles]
8:50 a.m., Thursday, somewhere over the South: I’m on a plane to Denver, and the range of clouds below me appears carved and forested, their sides a sheer plummet of pale slate and…
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A Poem from “It was the season, then.” [by Amy Allara]
As this week is the AWP conference in Denver I was prompted to share a poem by Sarah Suzor, who is in attendance and gave a reading last night at Plus Gallery. Sarah is…
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How to Sell a Musical Instrument [by Amy Allara]
When I recently returned to my stack of Etude magazines, I came across the following: The first ad is titled “Sister Susie and the Steno’ Job” and I assure you that I am…
