In December 1917, Amy Lowell’s local newspaper, The Brookline Chronicle, ran a…
On a cold, wet day in March of 1915, Amy Lowell stepped up on the dais in the large meeting…
When I was in second grade I edited my first book of poetry. All the poems I chose had fall as…
Robert Burns is a favorite poet of mine. I don’t know which came first, my fascination with Scotland or with Burns, but one feeds the other and I am besotted.
Through his poems, Burns takes me to Scotland — “Yon wild mossy mountains sae…
Poetry Month is coming to an end. Events such as poem in your pocket day, which encourages the carrying around of a poem in your pocket; thirty poets, thirty days, a celebration of poets through tweets; and the spring books list, reproduced below, a specially-compiled list of great new collections…
Yesterday I read The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, the only novel written by poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Brigge is a young man living in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century; he is Danish, poor, aristocratic and poetic but the most salient feature of Brigge is that he is encompassed by…
Yesterday I read War Dances by Sherman Alexie, his latest collection of stories, thoughts, and poems. Alexie’s works are fresh, open-faced, and straightforward, without irony or subtlety. His stories are like network TV versus cable, sincere enough but…
Harold Pinter’s Death etc. is a slim but sobering collection of his essays, plays, and poems about war, and specifically war as promulgated (fostered, supported, funded) by the United States. The works abound in references both veiled and stark to the United States’ promotion of right wing…
Yesterday I read Ten Poems to Set You Free by Roger Housden. Housden has written a series of books about poems, all with the theme of reading and using poems to help a person change themselves for the better. Housden writes with energy and sincerity and he picks great poems by good poets…
