Prosetry: She’s Just Not Her Old Self 8 years ago Niki Patton Poetry, Writing and Poetry 0 ••• I tried to find my old self. Looked under the bed In the closet Inside the kitchen and bathroom cabinets, behind the books on the shelves...
Poem: Shell Shock 8 years ago Holly St. John Bergon Poetry 0 ••• I read in the newspaper about a poet who returned from World War II, amazed to hear people talk about what they might do next summer,...
Where can writers get out of their lonely rooms to share works in progress? 8 years ago Holly Nadler Features, Non Fiction, Poetry 1 ••• Mostly, writers bang away at their keyboards in hours of lonely desperation. Some may have domestic partners with whom to share the day’s ou...
Why a poet wrote a poem — "Obama Checks Black" 9 years ago Rich Michelson Poetry, Quick Reads 0 ••• A poem contains its own meaning. Robert Frost, when asked to explain a poem he had just read, is said to have answered, “So you want me to s...
Poem from 'we plié, unto this last' 9 years ago Patrick Phillips Poetry, Quick Reads 0 ••• Title page of 'we plié, unto this last' what-life, wilderness. what dawn, its smallness and our, our line strung on with it. what...
A Conversation with Honor Moore 9 years ago Laura Roosevelt Artist Profiles, Poetry 0 ••• Last December, the New York Times asked Honor Moore — poet, memoirist, feminist, peace activist, daughter of Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore, an...
Poems of Margaret Howe Freydberg 9 years ago Arts & Ideas Poetry 2 ••• Portrait of Peggy Freydberg by Eli Dagostino. Chorus of Cells Every morning, even being very old, (or perhaps because of it), I...
Heather Neill – Sailing Camp Shadows 9 years ago Arts & Ideas Painting, Poetry, Portfolio 0 ••• Sailing Camp Shadows By the time I started this painting I was deep in the zone. I had found the essence of the story I wanted to tell wit...
About a Poet: Peggy Freydberg 9 years ago Nancy Aronie Features, Poetry 2 ••• I met Margaret Howe Freydberg 17 years ago when we were both speakers at the first Chilmark Women’s Symposium. She read her poem, “A Letter ...
Fan Olgilvie's Reflections On 'A Strange Catechism' 10 years ago Fan Ogilvie Poetry 0 ••• These mysterious words are from the poem “Confirmation” from Justen Ahren’s first book of poems, titled A Strange Catechism. The book is a s...