if you are not the kind of person who can write a eulogy, or you are not quite up to the task of opening your heart and sharing personal memories of the past, you may want to read a funeral poem instead. By relying on the words of some of ...
Alice Hemmings
While I already had a fondness of Kiplings short stories, my love of poetry (and history) owes less to my english teachers and more to the science fiction authors I read who shamelessly cribbed poems and stories from the great poets and histories of ages past (Pournelle, Stephenson, Drake...
Everything is a choice, even sitting here Now, click, click, clicking this poem. Are all poems messages to the great unknown? Future me, which does not exist, Might read one, many years from now, And wonder if she adequately loved What was sent to her as a gift to be loved. The ...
Read May 23, 2023 Poetry Prof The Bus Get your tickets and board Arun Kolatkar’s mysterious old bus for a mystical nighttime journey. Read May 15, 2023 Poetry Prof Funeral Blues When the world doesn’t seem to care, turn to Auden’s moving elegy. Read May 8, 2023 Poetry Prof ...
The New School's Tishman Auditorium in New York City was filled to capacity, and the standing-room-only audience responded most appreciatively and with no loss of attention from 7:15 when the proceedings began until it was Matthew Zapruder's turn to read at 8:50. David Lehman, the antholo...
In my case I put a call out to poets in Enfield Poets for poems industrial. These can be read and heard at Poetic Voices. Those by Christive Vial and me are from personal experience and the others are reflexions on industry. All very interesting and I hope that you like them. Share ...
James Brown Ode to Reggie Dunlop, In Retirement 58 James Brown The Assertion 58 Pete Brown Jet Set Jewel (lyrics) 9 Sass Brown Stone Baby 70 Steven Ford Brown Twilight 11 Steven Ford Brown A Nude Woman Under the Eyelid 15/16 Terri Brown-Davidson The Cabin 45 Jennifer Browne Estuary at Ti...
to city dwellers. Indeed, she has a different way of viewing the world; a bit old fashion, sassy, and steely at times but a viewpoint which has engaged my imagination and heart. I sincerely hope you too will find some morsel of wisdom in her personal observations and interpretations of ...
A Weather of My Own Making, Nnadi Samuel, Silver Blade 56 Welcoming the New Girl, Beth Cato, Penumbric October What You Find at the Center, Elizabeth R McClellan, Haven Spec Magazine 12 The Witch Makes Her To-Do List, Theodora Goss, Uncanny 50 ...