The Land of Rumi
We are in Cappadocia, the land of Rumi, central Turkey, after a week in Istanbul. The incredible “fairy towers” are …
Tag Archives: Poetry
Children: A Poem from Cahit Kulebi, Turkey
Prowling the bookstores on Iskitlal Street, Istanbul’s famous pedestrian walk-way, I came on a volume of poems in English Translation …
Adrienne Rich: Gone
III from Adrienne Rich’s “Twenty-One Love Poems:” via www.danagoldstein.com Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years …
The Age of Ignorance
Whew! Here’s some plain talk we don’t usually hear from the better behaved side of the aisle… Charles Simic is …
I Fell From A Bike Today
I fell from a bike today, hard. At sixty eight, four feet seems not so far until whacked by gravity …
Judgment Day
I’m getting ready for my day of judgment approaching breath by breath. Preparing in the sunlight, fog or sleet, preparing …
Richard Howard Brings Mallarme For A Beer
The Center for the Art of Translation hosts a once a month Lit & Lunch series in a large artists’ …
Morning Bird Songs: Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Transtromer, the recently Nobel Laureated poet from Sweden, writes luminescent gems, perhaps cut with different facets in Robert Bly’s …
“It’s Time,” a Poem by Zhu Yufu, Gets Him Seven Years
It’s time, people of China! It’s time. The Square belongs to everyone. With your own two feet It’s time to …
Dreamers — Siegfried Sassoon
I’ve been reading Pat Barker’s well thought of trilogy, Regeneration [Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road] about …
Heron God
I wondered as I watched the Great Blue Heron fishing if he had a god , and if so …
The Despair of Turbines
I remember a photo of Uncle Bill beside a turbine. He said he had a wide smile on. I couldn’t …