Before moving to Prince George in 1969, Barry McKinnon was writing single narrative poems that, in terms of form, began to seem outworn and inadequate in his new environment. The emotional range of the lyric had become too personal and limiting. Starting with a poem based on a discarded fr...
(inflammation of the uvea, a part of the iris), the latter seems more likely. In 1869 Higginson invited the poet to Boston to attend a literary salon. The terms she used in declining his invitation—“I do not cross my Father’s ground to any House or town”—make clear her refusal ...
How does the grouping of three jellyfish poems connect in terms of craft, tone, and focus, and how does each one differ from the others? I think what I call the jellyfish trio works because each one says something different and in quite a different way. “Jellyfish Kitchen” is kind o...
There are specific terms that refer to the number of iambs in each line. If a poem has two iambs per line, it is written in an iambic dimeter. Three iambs become iambic trimeter, four are iambic tetrameter, and five are iambic pentameter. Pentameter is the most common form of iambic...
That’s because what the poems give us are the past fifty years – Joseph’s adult lifetime – in terms of event, public policy and the evolution of civilisation: the Detroit Race Riots, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Twin Towers, globalisation and the internet, archaic and experimental ...
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generations, but in the wake of a few luminaries—Rabindranath Tagore or more recently, Arundhati Roy—many strident, lyrical voices have gone unrecognized (after all, this wave of Indian poets and novelists, for all the hype, is still but a ripple in publishing in terms of sheer numbers)....
“However, last Friday was the first time that I had to share my limitations in terms of protecting them.” When her student asked what they should do in case of an attack, Schimmoeller said she felt “a bolt of fear and sadness run through me. I definitely don’t have all the answe...
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