Here is a list of various found poems that I have made over the years. Happy holiday reading and looking … More
Category: Found Poems
We never keep to the present
We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found … More
A list of found poems
As the holiday season continues I repost this list of various found poems that I have made over the … More
The Year of Living Deeply 20: Poems hatch – a found poem by Marge Piercy
Poems hatch Poems hatch from memory, fantasy, the need to communicate with the living, the dead, the unborn. Poems come … More
A list of found poems
Here is a list of the found poems I have been posting over the summer, including older posts from last … More
Who would we be?, by Susan Sontag
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect … More
This divine breath, by Johann Herder
A breath of our mouth Becomes the portrait of the world, The type of our thoughts And our feelings … More
Poets who remain poets, by Stephen Dunn
Young poets Who don’t think of themselves As apprentices Are notorious For resisting influences. They’ve experienced The first stages Of … More
Other objects, by Primo Levi
Consider what value, What meaning Is enclosed even In the smallest Of our daily habits, In the hundred possessions Which … More
A need to answer, by Robert Pinsky
An artist needs not so much an audience as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond. … More
A sense of wonder, by Arthur Frank
The only real difference between people is not health or illness but the way each holds onto a sense of … More