This Is For You
BY BETH SHELBURNE
This is for you, he says, dropping the wet, glistening shell into my open palm like a coin.
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Marie Howe – Death, the last visit
Marie Howe’s different, highly sexual vision of transitioning out of life through a double-take on ‘la petite morte,’ the experience of orgasm as ‘a little death.’
Jericho Brown – Bullet Points
Jericho Brown’s poem talks to the weight carried by black Americans who live under the constant threat of police violence and injustice.
A Year of Dewdrops – What We Loved in 2020
What we all read and loved on The Dewdrop in 2020.
Shangyang Fang – Chaconne
Fang’s beautiful and complex poem addresses the questions of sin and redemption against the background of a young monk entering a monastery.
Ode to the Radio Telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Before its Collapse
BY MARY DINGEE FILLMORE
You listen all the time to the whispers of faraway stars’ radio signals. They barely flutter, but you’re more sensitive than any other telescope in the world.
Susan Barba – How Should We Live Our Lives?
Declared ‘a poem worth framing’ by one reviewer, Susan Barba’s How Should We Live Our Lives? dips into a stream of questions and musings reminiscent in style of Mary Oliver’s simple and probing verse. She starts with love and trepidation and ends with an all-subsuming sea that contains motherhood, memory and consciousness too. Susan Barba… Continue reading Susan Barba – How Should We Live Our Lives?
Surviving Intact – Norman Fischer on Zen, Language and Growing Old
Zen teacher and poet Norman Fischer on where and how poetry and Zen practice meet and interact.
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Their Love of Life Should Never Weaken
Pursuing our vocations and allowing our children the space to develop their own, are, according to Natalia Ginzburg, paramount in raising healthy children and developing healthy relationships with them as they grow.
