Lifesaving Poems: Margaret Avison’s ‘Twilight’

Twilight Three minutes ago it was almost dark.Now all the darkness is in theleaves (there are no morelow garage … More

Lifesaving Poems: Sean O’Brien’s ‘Before’

To safe and almost universal silence I published How Far From Here is Home? (Stride) a few days before Christmas … More

Struggling I haven’t had time to stand and fart recently, and you’re wanting me to work on a relationship? That … More

Bike You, who have borne three sons of mine, still bear my weight routinely, transporting me. An odd … More

As the holiday season continues I repost this list of various found poems that I have made over the … More

As the summer holiday season takes hold, I am posting an old blog post or two from the archive. See … More

My James Schuyler obsession continues. (So is my adoration of blogs about pencils, but that is another story.) Below are … More

and (Dear James) it occurs to me now, just thinking out loud, that in a way Kenneth and Frank … More

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the ‘poets I go back to’ idea, that I first came across in … More