Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
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Pablo Neruda in Valparaiso
01 Apr 2019Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Altobasso lost his mother at age thirteen, and the support of his father even before…
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Liu Xiaobo: Keeping Alive
14 Jul 2017Liu Xiaobo, one of the world’s most courageous men, Chinese dissident, died of liver cancer in a Chinese hospital, died…
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Learning — a Poem by William Stafford
08 Feb 2017Learning A piccolo played, then a drum. Feet began to come – a part of the music. Here comes a…
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Ashes Tossed to Wind
14 Oct 2016There will come the day when the ashes tossed to wind are mine. Pick a day of heavy breeze, I would…
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For the Unknown Enemy, a Poem by William Stafford
18 May 2016For the Unknown Enemy This monument is for the unknown good in our enemies. Like a picture their life began…
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Walking Through Spain, A Villanelle
15 Jan 2016Walking Through Spain, A Villanelle Walking through Spain on knotted, riven knees toes soaked in pain backs bent to the…
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Thinking of the Tao Te Ching After the (Persian Gulf) War
04 Jan 2016A poem by by Thom Tammaro: “Lao Tzu, I think of you at the gates of Chou near Han Ku Pass,…
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A Stray Bullet — a Poem by Mazen Maarouf
24 Dec 2015A Stray Bullet After crossing the living room, the library, the corridor and the photo that brings us together on…
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Bitter Searching of the Heart
16 Dec 2015Villanelle for Our Time From bitter searching of the heart, Quickened with passion and with pain We rise to play…
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A Poet and His Work, In Film
20 Oct 2015Poetry in film, now there’s a small sub-genre of the movie world. Hayden Reiss‘s long labor of love, Robert Bly:…
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Robert Bly, Poet, Crying Out….
17 Oct 2015I saw a wonderful documentary film the other day, titled Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy, about which more…
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Places Without Names — A Poem by Philip Booth
07 Oct 2015“Places Without Names” by Philip Booth in After the Storm: Poems on the Persian Gulf War editors Jay Meek and…
