Falling in love with Holub’s ‘Love’

I was lucky. I was taught English in one of those classrooms with complete sets of A Taste of Honey, … More

Finding ‘And Yet the Books’

One year I decided that I would decorate one of my teaching rooms with my collection of Poems on the … More

Yesterday I wrote here about poets disappearing. Partly this came to mind via news of Salt’s decision to discontinue publishing … More

The funniest thing you will ever read about Elizabeth Bishop (or teaching, or anything else) is Mark Halliday‘s essay Moose … More

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the poems that I … More

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the poems … More

With Only One Life Hold with both hands The tray of every day And pass in turn Along this … More

The Divine ImageTo Mercy, Pity, Peace, and LoveAll pray in their distress;And to these virtues of delightReturn their thankfulness.For Mercy, … More