Category Archives: Poets

Re-Reading C.D. Wright, 10:30 p.m.

Posted on August 28, 2018 by

“. . . That the poems we snatch from the language must bear the habit of our thinking. That their arrangement strengthens the authority on which each separate line is laid. That they extend the line into perpetuity. That they … Continue reading →

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Thinking about Wallace Stevens….

Posted on June 16, 2018 by

     “What is the poet’s subject?  It is his sense of the world.  The truth is that a man’s (one’s) sense of the world dictates his subjects to him, and that this sense is derived from his personality, his … Continue reading →

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Reading Muriel Rukeyser at 2 a.m.

Posted on May 27, 2018 by

(excerpt from The Life of Poetry (Introduction) : “In times of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that … Continue reading →

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Innisfree Poetry Journal – Issue 26

Posted on April 14, 2018 by

With thanks to Innisfree editor Greg McBride for publishing the above poem in the current issue. See also poet and essayist Rod Jellema’s essays on James Wright, Donald Hall, and Louis Simpson, in the same issue.

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