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2 Mar 2011, 5:28 pm
Jeffrey Brown talks to Libyan-born poet Khaled Mattawa about life under Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and the recent crisis in his homeland. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 9:46 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
Elizabeth Catlett’s Homage to Black Women Poets, 1984 My latest bibliography, in keeping with Black History Month, is here. [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 6:41 pm
--Marcus Tullius Cicero, lawyer-statesman-poet-pundit (106-43 BC) [read post]
18 May 2007, 6:19 pm
Even if I press "delete" I never erase completely certain things from my own internal memory. [read post]
24 Feb 2008, 6:15 am
Briefly It Enters, Briefly SpeaksI am the blossom pressed in a book,found again after two hundred years. . . .I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper....When the young girl who starvessits down to a tableshe will sit beside me. . . .I am food on the prisoner's plate. . . .I am water rushing to the wellhead,filling the pitcher until it spills. . . .I am the patient gardenerof the dry and weedy garden. . . .I am the stone step,the latch, and the working hinge. . . .I am the heart contracted by… [read post]
18 May 2008, 12:51 pm
Believing in Iron The hills my brothers & I createdNever balanced, & it took yearsTo discover how the world worked.We could look at a tree of blackbirds& tell you how many were there,But with the scrap dealerOur math was always off.Weeks of lifting & gruntingNever added up to much,But we couldn't stopBelieving in iron.Abandoned trucks & carsWere held to the groundBy thick, nostalgic fingers of vinesStrong as a dozen… [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 6:10 am
Our Masterpiece Is the Private LifeFor JulesIIs there something down by the water keeping itself from us,Some shy event, some secret of the light that falls upon the deep,Some source of sorrow that does not wish to be discovered yet? [read post]
8 Mar 2008, 7:26 am
Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life For JulesIIs there something down by the water keeping itself from us,Some shy event, some secret of the light that falls upon the deep,Some source of sorrow that does not wish to be discovered yet? [read post]
28 Apr 2007, 5:05 am
Feeling slightly deflated after the most beautiful wedding ever, in which The Best Friend married the best man. [read post]
28 Jul 2007, 5:45 am
Blogger won't let me format the complex and deliberate whitespace Siken uses in his poetry. [read post]
30 Jun 2007, 7:49 am
I can't explain the past week's absence.It was a good week, full of surprises (good, bad, just relieving) and heady uncertainties. [read post]
1 Sep 2007, 8:47 am
ThrenodyLilacs blossom just as sweetNow my heart is shattered.If I bowled it down the street,Who's to say it mattered? [read post]
11 May 2007, 6:57 pm
Tomorrow is commencement, and I'm not walking. [read post]
25 May 2007, 6:24 pm
Years later, loves later, these speak to me. [read post]