Category Archives: Book Reviews
Poem of the Week: Two Countries by Naomi Shihab Nye
Skin remembers how long the years grow when skin is not touched, a gray tunnel of singleness, feather lost from the tail of a bird, swirling onto a step, swept away by someone who never saw it was a feather. … Continue reading
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Book Review: Dispatches by Michael Herr
Wow, well my first book after not reading for a year is Michael Herr‘s Dispatches and what a book this is. Michael Herr was a Vietnam war correspondent for Esquire Magazine from 1967 to 1969 and the book is based … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: Meeting at an Airport by Taha Muhammad Ali
You asked me once, on our way back from the midmorning trip to the spring: “What do you hate, and who do you love?” And I answered, from behind the eyelashes of my surprise, my blood rushing like the shadow … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: From New Hampshire by Rosanna Warren
It’s not your mountain but I almost expect to meet you here I think you have taken a long late evening walk Your heavy shoes glisten with dew I hear your footsteps pause on the dirt road … Continue reading
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A Poem for Emily by Miller Williams – Poem of the Week
Small fact and fingers and farthest one from me, a hand’s width and two generations away, in this still present I am fifty-three. You are not yet a full day. When I am sixty-three, when you are ten, and you … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: Autumn Begins in Martin’s Ferry, Ohio by James Wright
In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood, And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel, Dreaming of heroes. All the proud … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: A Time Past by Denise Levertov
The old wooden steps to the front door where I was sitting that fall morning when you came downstairs, just awake, and my joy at sight of you (emerging into golden day – the dew almost frost) pulled me to … Continue reading
Poem of the Week: From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee
From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we turned toward signs painted Peaches. From laden boughs, from hands, from sweet fellowship in the bins, comes nectar … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: Letter to Laundry on the Line by Russ Kesler
All day our business carries us past you, white blaze at the corner of the eye. Even the hands that pinned you there have turned for a while to other things. Still, we should acknowledge your humility, your readiness to … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: Invisible Work by Alison Luterman
Because no one could ever praise me enough, because I don’t mean these poems only but the unseen unbelievable effort it takes to live the life that goes on between them, I think all the time about invisible work. About … Continue reading
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