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Kelly Joslyn
Featured Poetry

Kelly Joslyn – Before the Hunt

June 27, 2021June 22, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Kelly Joslyn's quiet and simple poem Before the Hunt is a childhood reminiscence of her father. The child's early-morning attentiveness to her father extends to the dim lighting and the smell of the tangerine, like looking at an old Polaroid of something from childhood.

Tagged child, childhood, father, fatherhood, gentleness, memory, moment, morning, parenthood, Quiet, Simplicity2 Comments
M. Christine Benner Dixon
Featured Poetry

M. Christine Benner Dixon – Portrait of Dad at the Cutting Board

May 30, 2021May 24, 2021 Vanessa Able

M. Christine Benner Dixon's poem is an intimate portrait of her father, remembered from childhood.

Tagged childhood, father, memory, portrait, ritual, tribute2 Comments
Sanctuary - Kent Jacobson
All About Love

Sanctuary

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY KENT JACOBSON A baseball field was a sanctuary for a small community of boys who were surrounded by angry fathers they were too young to understand.

Tagged baseball, childhood, community, friendship, memory, sanctuary, Violence1 Comment
Amanda Smith-Hatch
Featured Poetry

Amanda Smith-Hatch – Redemption

December 6, 2020December 6, 2020 Vanessa Able

Amanda Smith-Hatch's Redemption is an attempt to capture the profundity hidden within a seemingly banal moment in time.

Tagged memory, moment, ordinary, perception, Reality, redemption1 Comment
Todd Williams
Featured Poetry

Todd Williams – Lost Socks

November 29, 2020November 27, 2020 Vanessa Able

Todd Williams wrote this poem shortly after the death of his father, having gone through his clothes and belongings.

Tagged father, generations, loss, memory, remnantsLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Dad Too Late

November 12, 2020November 12, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY KENT JACOBSON My father clomped through life with boots—“Your mother will turn you into a softy”— and died early.

Tagged childhood, family, father, memory1 Comment
Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges – Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf

July 29, 2020December 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

The Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges once wrote: “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

Tagged 2020, blindness, knowledge, learning, memory, Poetry, reading, soulLeave a comment
Lucille Clifton
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Lucille Clifton – why some people be mad at me sometimes

June 10, 2020September 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

Poet Lucille Clifton once said, 'writing is a way of continuing to hope,' adding, 'perhaps for me it is a way of remembering I am not alone.' This powerful poem of hers resonates through its brevity and sparing use of language, which she was otherwise known for.

Tagged 2020, forgetting, memory, Poetry, remembering1 Comment
Jocelyn Ulevicus
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Jocelyn Ulevicus – A Home Safe to Call Home

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Vanessa Able

What happens when home is not a place of safety, but a locus of loneliness and even danger and violence? Jocelyn Ulevicus' poem describes a solitude and a fear around isolation wrapped in memories of past violence, and explores what finally settling into a sense of safety really means.

Tagged home, isolation, Loneliness, memory, Poetry, safety, Violence1 Comment
David Whyte
Irish Poetry

David Whyte on Love and Separation

April 29, 2019 Vanessa Able

If birth is a shock that whisks us out of another existence, a life that is whole and not lacking, then we can spend our whole lives in a state of longing for something we can't quite remember, that we can't quite articulate. In his poem about this kind of division and separation, 'Cleave', David… Continue reading David Whyte on Love and Separation

Tagged Cleave, David Whyte, love, memory, Poetry, separation1 Comment

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