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Old Friends by Jennifer L. Knox
(Ed note: Laurence Goldstein's posts this week about encounter poems reminded me of this poem by one of my favorite poets. What do you think? Do you have a favorite "encounter" poem? — sdh)…
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Hardball. Not Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Fancy Dog, here for no reason. Dear Bleaders, I find it hard to believe that, down that long road, *nobody* said it would be easy. I think someone’s given me a hard…
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The Encounter Poem Part IV by Laurence Goldstein
(Ed. note: This is a continuation of Laurence Goldstein's essay about the encounter poem. Find part one here, part II here, and part III here.) Nastassja Kinski in Roman Polanski's film Tess (1979) In…
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The Encounter Poem Part III by Laurence Goldstein
(Ed. note: This is a continuation of Laurence Goldstein's essay about the encounter poem. Find part one here and part II here.) from "Tramping with Tramps" Josiah Flynt, 1907 I want to call attention…
