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Dance with Gerald
It’s a few days after the forth anniversary of Gerald Stern’s death. And this seems to fit with my November theme (if you can figure out what that is!).
The Dancing
In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture
and wrinkle...
Keats and Ruefle
Your Monday Vitamin
I rarely post poems by 19th century poets, preferring to stay with the contemporary. But in this poem by John Keats, if you simply substitute modern pronouns for “thy” and “thine” and “thou,” seems to me it could have b...
Little master of the earth
Neruda cracked open the ode with his book, Ode to Common Things. Other poets followed. Here’s one of my favorites.
Ode to the Maggot
Brother of the blowfly
& godhead, you work magic
Over battlefields,
In slabs of bad pork
& flo...
More than Ink
This is one of the best manifestos on writing that I’ve seen.
Ars Poetica:
14th Street Gym
Beauty that does not disguise the wound,
but reads through to the lack it marks:
the one-armed man lifts himself again
on the ass...
More Ginkgos
This one by the beloved Berkeley poet and arborist, Joe Lamb.
Ratio of Night To Day
Nine days to Winter Solstice
and the ginkgo
standing on our street
has just begun undressing
for winter.
Apparently unaware
of the time of ye...
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Meryl Natchez took a leave of absence in her Junior year of college and has been rigorously home schooling herself ever since. Her fourth book, Catwalk, received an Indie Best Book 2020 Award from Kirkus Reviews.
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