The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Romantic period of Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly in England and of others around Europe is not normally thought of …
Category Archives: Poetry
Pablo Neruda in Valparaiso
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Altobasso lost his mother at age thirteen, and the support of his father even before …
Liu Xiaobo: Keeping Alive
Liu Xiaobo, one of the world’s most courageous men, Chinese dissident, died of liver cancer in a Chinese hospital, died …
Learning — a Poem by William Stafford
Learning A piccolo played, then a drum. Feet began to come – a part of the music. Here comes a …
Ashes Tossed to Wind
There will come the day when the ashes tossed to wind are mine. Pick a day of heavy breeze, I would …
For the Unknown Enemy, a Poem by William Stafford
For the Unknown Enemy This monument is for the unknown good in our enemies. Like a picture their life began …
Walking Through Spain, A Villanelle
Walking Through Spain, A Villanelle Walking through Spain on knotted, riven knees toes soaked in pain backs bent to the …
Thinking of the Tao Te Ching After the (Persian Gulf) War
A poem by by Thom Tammaro: “Lao Tzu, I think of you at the gates of Chou near Han Ku Pass, …
A Stray Bullet — a Poem by Mazen Maarouf
A Stray Bullet After crossing the living room, the library, the corridor and the photo that brings us together on …
Bitter Searching of the Heart
Villanelle for Our Time From bitter searching of the heart, Quickened with passion and with pain We rise to play …
A Poet and His Work, In Film
Poetry in film, now there’s a small sub-genre of the movie world. Hayden Reiss‘s long labor of love, Robert Bly: …
Robert Bly, Poet, Crying Out….
I saw a wonderful documentary film the other day, titled Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy, about which more …