Category Archives: Poetry

Poem of the Week: Grace, in passing

Posted on August 25, 2007 by cicada

Once, years ago, I tore a photo of Grace Paley out of a magazine. The photo was something like this one, from the cover of her Collected Poems. I had no idea who she was at the time, but something … Continue reading →

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Poem of the Week: Sonnet 116

Posted on July 29, 2007 by cicada

Ah, the British Library. In one room: Shakespeare’s First Folio, Thomas More’s last letter to Henry III, Lewis Carroll’s diary, the Gutenberg Bible, a letter from Darwin to Wallace, a letter from Newton to Hooke, Shakespeare’s mortgage, Magna Carta, a … Continue reading →

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Poem of the Week: Pray that the road is long

Posted on June 28, 2007 by cicada

Sunrise at Scala, Kefalonia Bombdog ‘s flickr stream “but low-lying Ithaca is farthest out to sea, towards the sunset, and the others are apart, towards the dawn and sun.” -Homer, Odyssey “Ithaca” Constantine Cavafy When you set out on your … Continue reading →

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Poem of the Week: Confession

Posted on June 15, 2007 by cicada

Forest Fires, Umatilla National Forest, Washington State (2006) Susannah Sayler, The Canary Project   “A Confession of Lies” Elizabeth Macklin, A Woman Kneeling in the Big City (1992) No, it isn’t needed: this blue sky, the two exact trees Where … Continue reading →

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Poem of the Week: You do not have to be good

Posted on May 25, 2007 by cicada

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. from … Continue reading →

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“Poems, like birds, are everywhere”

Posted on May 23, 2007 by cicada

Animal Locomotion plate 770 (detail) collotype Eadweard Muybridge, 1887 The latest edition of I and the Bird is presented by Via Negativa as a fine found poem: The afternoon lull had set in, but we pressed on. We spotted the … Continue reading →

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Our chances become slightly less remote

Posted on May 15, 2007 by cicada

The venerable lit journal Poetry has the following invitation on its site: In June, July, and August 2007, POETRY will only consider work from poets who have not previously appeared in the magazine. We encourage writers new to these pages … Continue reading →

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Poem of the Week: Edison in Love

Posted on May 7, 2007 by cicada

Robin Ekiss writes poems that draw hungrily and indiscriminately from history, science, art, language, nature – basically, the entire liberal arts curriculum: The consolation of physics is art: scoliotic curve of the earth, cello that was Adam’s first knowledge of … Continue reading →

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Poem of the Week: because love waits

Posted on April 28, 2007 by cicada

Jessica Fisher named Yale younger poet (Yale Bulletin) Poet Jessica Fisher’s first book, Frail-Craft (Amazon) (Yale Press), has just been released as a paperback in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. This is quite an honor, and it couldn’t happen … Continue reading →

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Poem of the Week: After rain

Posted on April 7, 2007 by cicada

Bearded Iris After Rain, 2006 In the garden at my old house, these iris are just waking up; I won’t see them in bloom this year, but it’s enough to know they’re there. I feel that way about nature in … Continue reading →

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