I really would like to post 30 times about 30 different poets during National Poetry Month, but — let me admit up front — I’m lowering thresholds all over the place. Soon I’ll be lying inert in the doorway and you’ll have to step over me. But not today! Today, we get a poem from […]
HOW FIRE DESCENDS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, Serhiy Zhadan. Translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2023, 136 pages, paper, $18, yalebooks.yale.edu. I purchased this book last April, but have put off blogging about it because I would love to attempt to do it justice. A beautiful book, […]
Busy day in our country today, so I’m cheating a bit and just making announcements and reposting from elsewhere. First, I have been meaning to tell you about two upcoming readings — as it is National Poetry Month, there are many, all over the place — I’ll be reading at Edmonds Bookshop on Thursday, April […]
CURVE, Kate Reavey. Empty Bowl Press, Chimacum, Washington, 2022, 93 pages, $16, www.emptybowl.org. The curve here is the touch of a hand to a child’s head, the shape of a maple leaf, the sole of a foot against a floor, and it is curve as in the trajectory of a life. A woman remembering her […]