Now I Feel I Am On My Way
Gabrielle Bates on Mary Ruefle’s Dunce
All posts filed under: Essays
Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.
More of a River
“How can poetry, with only words at its disposal, work on us the way the world works on us?”
Jason Whitmarsh on the poetry of Richard Kenney
Our Girls: Notes on Poetry and Palestinian Motherhood
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on the poems of Naomi Shihab Nye
Blessèd Delusions: Literary Follies and Visual Poems
First I thought Stet would fail to be a book, and now . . . it has failed to fail.
A Small Dislocation
“Kinnell’s poetry can show us that the cup of trembling . . . must be lived with, if anything that might assemble itself toward joy could ever possibly be found.”
Devin Kelly on the poetry of Galway Kinnell
Simply Where We Live
“Concrete gestures toward beauty, fragile investments in progress. Literal seeds sown.”
Alex Madison on Here: Poems for the Planet
Something Silent in Us Strengthens
“In the time we have remaining, Kaminsky asks that we commit to exaltation as an honest response to our beleaguered world.”
Kristen Millares Young on Ilya Kaminsky
My Dear collateral damage
“That language, rescued from the machinery of war, can offer the consolation of being looked upon in relation . . . to whom you are beloved.”
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on Solmaz Sharif
Autoportret
Jehanne Dubrow on the paintings of Jerzy Duda-Gracz
Not an Elegy
“Through lamentation and joy, Smith’s poems lean their head back and sing, Not yet.”
Image: “Dreams In Black and White”, 2013, courtesy of the artist, Shikeith