Sorry for the delay. A most wonderful and mysterious poem for you all. Well, not mysterious as much as a great treasure beneath the already masterful language.
14
Sep
09
Delay
13
Aug
09
What is Wrong…
It’s getting more and more difficult to find work that is beautiful and lyrical, and substantial, and well-written. And urges the reader to think, even for a moment, about what is wrong or right…
07
Aug
09
Implicit unconventionality
It really is difficult to find a good poem which seems to be at once dangerous (by its implicit unconventionality) and understandable (lifting the heart a bit as we are able to allow it).
27
Jul
09
“something dark and beautiful…”
Nikole Hahn, one of our regional editors, sent us this comment for the below poem by Karen Rigby:
“Always a rose entwined with rose, given in ardor or vengeance. Kiss-of-death.” This is my favorite line in the poem. There’s something dark and beautiful about this poem. It attracted my eye right away and it would be a poem I would read over and over again like Robert Frost.
If you want to contact Nikole, she is on facebook.
22
Jul
09
Key
Sometimes, one of the marks of a good poem is the way certain key words in certain key locations in the work bring such pleasure to the reader, she trusts it completely.
15
Jul
09
Attentive
How fortunate to read a poem so calm, so attentive to the rhythms and motion of life yet doesn’t stop there, being filled with another kind of landscape both personal, symbolic and beyond.
We discovered this poem via the Montana Poetry Day website.
David Gregory’s “The Grey Ones”
from Land Very Fertile: Banks Peninsula in poetry and prose
Edited by Coral Atkinson & David Gregory
Canterbury University Press, 2008
Used with the kind permission of Canterbury University Press
07
Jul
09
Choice
Thanks to all the editors and their suggestions. It makes our work much easier, and the material more choice.
We are looking at a few more suggestions from our editors.
Meanwhile, one of our editors-in-chief, came across this wonderful and maturely insightful poem by Louise Gluck. Listen also to her nuanced reading of the poem.
Check out other work by Louise Gluck:
05
Jul
09
“Making Sense”
Cati Porter, editor of Poemeleon, had the following comment about one of the poems from her magazine:
“I am a big fan of poems that take risks, that make illogical leaps that make sense. The odd imagistic juxtapositions make this poem, as it says, ‘resist all closure.’”
01
Jul
09
“Common Threat”
Linda Benninghoff had this to say about this wonderful poem:
“This poem posits a larger community off all sentient beings who feel the common threat to the environment. We must join with the animals in doing something about the environmental crisis. It is imaginative and offers a new vision.”
If you want to contact Linda, she is on facebook.
Check out other work by Grace Cavalieri:
27
Jun
09
“It takes a poet to understand…”
The following translation was suggested by DeWitt Brinson, one of our regional editors, who had this to say about the poet and her poem.
“Death and Daddy issues. Most of her life was in the grip of father communism. Anyone would reach for a knife. It takes a killer to truly understand a weapon. It takes a poet to understand just how many things there are to kill.”
Dewitt is assistant editor of Exquisite Corpse.
Check out other work by Ruxandra Cesereanu:
