‘Poem’ Category
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Two Poems by Brenda Hillman
0May 20, 2013 by Reader's Connection
Brenda Hillman’s collection Loose Sugar is described on its back cover as “an alchemical manuscript disguised as a collection of poems, or vice versa,” and the book’s structure makes the…
Category Poem | Tags: Brenda Hillman, Early Sex, Loose Sugar, Symmetry Breaking
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3 Poems by Kabir
0April 29, 2013 by Reader's Connection
These poems are from Songs of Kabir (2011, New York Review Books), and are used here with the publisher’s generous permission. Kabir was born in Benares, India, to a family recently converted…
Category Poem | Tags: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Kabir, National Poetry Month, Songs of Kabir, Wendy Doniger
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Poems and Simplicity
0April 23, 2013 by Reader's Connection
Sent by Susanne: There are long, epic poems, and then there are concise, simple poems. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) epitomized the simple form, living as she did a relatively small and…
Category Poem, Website Feature | Tags: Garrison Keillor, Good Poems, National Poetry Month
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2 Poems by Norbert Krapf
0April 18, 2013 by Reader's Connection
“To Obscure Men” and “German Fries” appear in Norbert Krapf’s first full-length collection Somewhere in Southern Indiana: Poems of Midwestern Origins (©1993). The rights to these poems have reverted to…
Category Poem | Tags: German Fries, National Poetry Month, Norbert Krapf, Somewhere in Southern Indiana, To Obscure Men
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Webpoetics
0April 1, 2013 by Reader's Connection
Ezra Pound is back, to remind us that April is National Poetry Month. I hope to get some poems posted here during the month, but in the meantime, you…
Category Poem, Website Feature | Tags: Academy of American Poets, National Poetry Month, Poem a Day, Poetry, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Magazine