Lua Kobayashi's exploration of the Japanese-American experience, captured through personal narratives and treasured belongings.
Tag: history
Charlotte Trumble – As If Wisconsin
Charlotte Trumble's "As If Wisconsin" is poem which bristles with wildness, history, setting, and the narrator's own roots.
Lewis Hyde on Dogen and Self-Forgetting
Lewis Hyde weighs up the use of memory and asks, when is forgetting the best strategy?
Joseph Dorazio – Gold Anklebone Cups
A concise homage to the ancient Greek poet Sappho, Joseph Dorazio's taut "Gold Anklebone Cups" reminds us of mortality.
Arvilla Fee – A Serengeti Cornfield
Seasoned with gratitude and appreciation, the imagery evoked in Arvilla Fee's "A Serengeti Cornfield" sticks to the ribs.
Wendy Blaxland – Midwinter fire
Prolific Australian writer Wendy Blaxland presents the sparseness of three warm lines to ward off the boreal chill in her poem "Midwinter fire".
Ellen Girardeau Kempler – Jet Lag
Ellen Girarardeau Kempler's "Jet Lag" places us in the rugged Arizona desert and takes us back into the furthest expanses of geologic time.
Adam Jon Miller – anthology
Adam Jon Miller offers readers a peek at a part of series of poems inspired by the ancient Chinese poets with his "anthology".
Patrice Bavos – Sedona Prayer
New Jersey poet Patrice Bavos offers a gracious praise poem of a spiritual place with her lovely "Sedona Prayer".
Christopher James – Cider, memories, and dreams
In the hushed lines of Christopher James' Cider, memories, and dreams, we are brought along with the narrator as he wanders an overgrown family orchard, remembers the past, and ponders the future.