Tag Archives: poetry – other people’s

Rest in Peace Adrienne Rich: Fellow Poet, Feminist, Queer Woman, Trail-Blazer

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

Last week, I was about to board a plan to San Francisco when I saw Adrienne Rich’s obituary on the front page of the New York Times. It’s hard to describe Adrienne Rich’s impact on my life with grace and … Continue reading →

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How to be alone

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

A beautiful poem — visual, verbal, musical — on the virtues of solitude. “If you’re happy in your head, then solitude is blessed and alone is okay.” Watch it on Youtube

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Kellie Elmore: Autumn’s Apology

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

I got up to close the window and saw her she was spinning in the yard and painting the leaves on my trees sorry I was late – Kellie Elmore, Autumn’s Apology

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Olga Broumas: Leda and her Swan

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

You have red toenails, chestnut hair on your calves, oh let me love you, the fathers are lingering in the background nodding assent. I dream of you shedding calico from slow-motion breasts, I dream of you leaving with skinny women, … Continue reading →

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Mohja Kahf: The Marvelous Women

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

All women speak two languages: the language of men and the language of silent suffering. Some women speak a third, the language of queens. They are marvelous and they are my friends. My friends give me poetry. If it were … Continue reading →

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Katie Peterson, sore throat, inspiration, the cycle of percussion

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

The Boston Review has been sending me messages on Facebook every day for National Poetry Month (or NaPoWriMo, as the more intarweb-geek among us have been calling it). My initial reaction was just “too much poetry.” It felt like work, … Continue reading →

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Grace, by Cecilia Woloch

Posted on February 5, 2011 by

Grace When I think of how you move – when you enter a room, how the room enters you; when you step out into the night, how the night sky falls into your hair – when I think of how … Continue reading →

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Horoscoped: poetry from statisticians

Posted on February 4, 2011 by

I don’t check my RSS feed as much as I used to. You could either blame my job, for giving me more to do, or possibly Hulu and Netflix, for giving me more passive entertainment options. Personally, I blame either … Continue reading →

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Eternity – by William Blake

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy He who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sunrise – William Blake Blake was an early Romantic poet. Studying him at Vassar had a tremendous … Continue reading →

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Marguerite Guzman Bouvard — Night strides across borders

Posted on January 5, 2011 by

Excerpted from After Maillol Night Night strides across borders. Hush, she commands the barking dogs, the searchlights, the buckling barbed wire fences. She cradles the earth in her gleaming limbs until the only sounds are those of mingled breaths, the … Continue reading →

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