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Poet Pick – Laura Foley
Read more: Poet Pick – Laura FoleyComing Into FocusRereading Anna Karenina for the umpteenth time,but as a mother with grandkids, I pause at parts I once skimmed, linger on the children’slaughter and little scissors,skimming the love affairs,focusing mostly on Levin,scything in hot sun,evoking my Polish husband,fluent in Russian,who died with a well-marked War and Peace on his nightstand,whom we buried in…
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Poet Pick – Kim Welliver
Read more: Poet Pick – Kim WelliverSnow White, Rose Red After Anne Sexton No matter what life you lead the body is an engine that must be fed; caviar or beetroot, the inner furnace stoked. There are other hungers, in a village of immigrants: empty bellies, like brown dogs, are everywhere. But there is a cost. And so there were two…
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Poet Pick – Jonathan Yungkans
Read more: Poet Pick – Jonathan Yungkanswater —after “the way fingers know the keys starless night” by Michelle SchaeferUncle Tommy died and Dad told me seven years later / another door he kept locked / to a room dark as a starless night / as if Tommy were still camped on our living room couch after coming back from Vietnam /…
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Poet Pick – Isabel Cristina Legarda
Read more: Poet Pick – Isabel Cristina LegardaMythologyIn those days, the wooden drawers of card catalogs still led us to the books we thought we needed, and if we were lucky, to the miracle of cross-references.The rumor was that deep in the Widener Library stacks,in Scandinavian Literature, a blanket more epic than Freyr’s magic Skíðblaðnir guaranteed lovers who tussled under its fibersthe…
