Book Review: The Lost Words, Robert MacFarlane (author) and Jackie Morris (illustrator) Poetry: The Lost Words, Robert MacFarlane & Jackie Morris A hank of rope in the late hot sun; a curl of bark; a six, an eight: For adder is as adder basks. When a recent edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary was released, […]
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Author Spotlight: Joy Harjo
Author Spotlight: Joy Harjo, 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States Poetry: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, Joy Harjo Poetry: Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, Joy Harjo This autumn, Joy Harjo will begin her term as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. She is the first Native American to […]
Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation, Marjorie Maddox
Book Review: Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation, Marjorie Maddox Poetry: Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation, Marjorie Maddox Poetry can slice deeply into the human heart and leave it open and vulnerable. When the poems involve an actual heart transplant, that truism may be more accurate than ever. Marjorie Maddox’s collection of poems, Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation, reflects on her father’s […]
Book Review: Martin Rising: Requiem for a King, Andrea D. Pinkney
Book Review: Martin Rising: Requiem for a King, Words by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Illustrations by Brian Pinkney Poetry: Martin Rising: Requiem for a King, Andrea Davis Pinkney Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Three days later, I turned two years old. I only say that to put my age into […]
Book Review: I lost summer somewhere, Sarah Russell
Book Review: I lost summer somewhere, Sarah Russell Poetry: I lost summer somewhere, Sarah Russell Local (State College, PA) poet Sarah Russell has given us a collection of poems that are heartfelt and moving. I lost summer somewhere is poignant, elegant, and sometimes emotionally raw. Reading it drew me into a world of love and […]
Book Review: Mother Love, Rita Dove
Book Review: Mother Love, Rita Dove Poetry: Mother Love, Rita Dove Rita Dove served as US Poet Laureate in the 1990s. Her collection of sonnets, Mother Love, was written at the end of her tenure in that post. It is a powerful collection inspired by the myth of Persephone. Dove’s speaker sometimes is Persephone, […]
Quote: It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. Rainer Maria Rilke
Book Review: A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver
Book Review: A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver Poetry: A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver Mary Oliver was best known for her elegiac, almost spiritual poems about nature and common things. In this collection she focuses on those very things, writing poems about her dog Percy, about thrushes and jays and foxes, mists and mountains. The result […]
Quote: It was at that age, that poetry came in search of me. Pablo Neruda
Book Review: this and that, hülya n. yilmaz
Book Review: this and that: a hodge podge of hülya’s…poetry, hülya n. yilmaz Poetry: this and that: a hodge podge of hülya’s…poetry, hülya n. yilmaz I had the privilege of attending the launch party for hülya n. yilmaz’s book this and that and listen to her read some of her poems aloud. Poetry should be […]