For arbors and wine from Poetry, September 1997. A little bit more by/about Atkinson here:
http://www.32poems.com/blog/2188/day-10-jennifer-atkinson-on-her-five-favorite-poetry-books
from Ancient of Days / by Jennifer Atkinson
The temple stands empty, unhaunted,
But for the drone of my words, and the bees.
from Homecoming / by Peter Viereck
And I’ve nothing else to do but fish and brood.
from Homecoming / by Peter Viereck
And I’ve nothing else to do but fish and brood.
For Audubon, from Poem A Day, edited by Laurie Sheck, Volume 2 (2003). More on Robert Penn Warren here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-penn-warren
from VI Love and Knowledge (from Audubon: A Vision) / by Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
They cry
In a tongue multitudinous, often like music.
From The New Criterion, June 1998, Volume 16, Number 10. You may have read her beautiful children’s book, The Mouse of Amherst, about a mouse living in the wall behind Emily Dickinson’s writing desk. The illustrations by Claire Nivola, the colors, and the two friends trading poems make it a book worth hunting down. More here and here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/elizabeth-spires
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mouse-Amherst-Elizabeth-Spires/dp/0374350833/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407258982&sr=8-1&keywords=the+mouse+of+Amherst
from Dogwood / by Elizabeth Spires b. 1952
For weeks you have stood there,
arms raised like a priest
From Mouth to Mouth, edited by Forrest Gander (1991).
from Canto Malabar / by Elsa Cross
From the shine of your feet
a wave of light rises
We’re in a cabin a few days, so I have one book. This one’s also from Mouth to Mouth, Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women, edited by Forrest Gander (1991). A little more here (google translated):
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/02/26/cultura/a05a1cul&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmonica%2Bmansour%2Bpoemas%26rlz%3D1T4WQIA_enUS585US585
from Untitled / by Monica Mansour
And later, I let them fall, but the veil tangled in a bird’s wing.
From Mouth to Mouth, ed. By Forrest Gander.
from Folklore / by Elena Milan
Nevertheless, we go dancing through the streets
to the rhythm of rattles and clarinets with a thousand reeds
For the visual arts, from Poetry, October-November 1999. More here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/alfred-corn
from Seeing All the Vermeers / by Alfred Corn b. 1943
a View of Delft, cleaned so thoroughly
you couldn’t miss that patch of yellow
This one’s from Puerto del Sol, Spring 1999. Lovely to share an issue with this poet. I will pretend that a rain poem is like a rain dance, and I will consider it successful if our valley sees rain any time in the next month. I hear that the total rainfall for this region these past twelve months is lower than it’s ever been in recorded history. Here’s a bit more:
http://www.poemhunter.com/nancy-cherry/
from Rain Storm / by Nancy Cherry
imagines lichens rising as he passes
the receiver to the other hand as if
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