For Issa, from Ploughshares, Spring 2014. More on Dr. Wallace here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ronald-wallace
from Song of Myself / by Ronald Wallace b. 1945
And the birds. And you.
Month: October 2014
DPF / Starbuck
For Sylvia, from Poetry Foundation’s archives.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/19639
from Of Late / by George Starbuck (1931–1996)
He said it with simple materials such as would be found in your kitchen.
DPF / Harsent
More for rain from Poetry magazine, October 2014. Trying to fill yesterday with it.
from A Dream Book / by David Harsent
Now footsteps on shingle. Make of it what you will.
DPF / Bogan
For Shakespeare, from Louise Bogan’s Collected Poems: 1923-1953. More on Louise Bogan, here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/louise-bogan
from To An Artist, To Take Heart / by Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall
DPF / Sitwell
For mulberry trees, from my $2.50 first edition of Potable Gold (1929), by Babette Deutsch (1895–1982).
from Elegy on Dead Fashion / by Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
The nymphs are dead like the great summer roses.
DPF / Benzvi
For bureaucracies, from Fairy Tale Review, The Emerald Issue. More on the poet here:
http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2013/10/happy-29-anat-benzvi-by-anthony-madrid-via-facebook-.html
from Preface / by Anat Benzvi
nevertheless, nevertheless.
When our Homer is a bitter silence.
DPF / Goff
For weddings, from Thrush Poetry Journal: an anthology of the first two years, edited by Helen Vitoria. The rest of the poem may be found here:
http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/july-2012-cindy-goff.html
from Snapdragons / by Cindy Goff
Everyone had to go back to work
down the mine
DPF / McMullen
Another for the children of October, from An Eyeball in My Garden.
http://www.eyeballinmygarden.com/2012/10/spotlight-interview-angela-mcmullen.html
from The Witching Hour / by Angela McMullen
On moonless nights she lies in bed,
With sleepless eyelids twitching.
DPF / Lermontov
For monasteries, from Narrative Poems by Alexander Pushkin & Mikhail Lermontov. More on the poet here:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/337014/Mikhail-Lermontov
from The Novice / by Mikhail Lermontov b. Oct 15, 1814 [Oct 3 Old Style] translated by Charles Johnston
Down from the mountains rode one day
a Russian general, on his way
DPF / Weise
For electromagnetism, from her Isabella Gardner Poetry Award Winner (2013) which is also her Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award Winner (2013), The Book of Goodbyes.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jillian-weise
from Semi Semi Dash / by Jillian Weise
The last time I saw Big Logos he was walking
to the Quantum Physics Store to buy magnets.
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