Tag: poet

In retrospect, Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem really got me thinking: How might our world look different, if we simply honored each individual’s need for space?

After poetry’s compressed, telegraphic form, I couldn’t let all the nouns and verbs just hang out in sentences.

All characters are works of fiction; any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental.

A deadly silence has been living too long in the corridors of power.

He seemed about my age, and I appreciated, as he read, what I understood as resonances of both vigor and mortality.

Last week, the poet Michelle Gillett, a beloved Berkshire writer, passed away. Belle Fox-Martin offers this poem in tribute.

In tribute to Michelle Gillett's true gifts as a poet and artist, and to her wonderfully generous spirit that she shared with others.

The poet David Giannini says his collection of ordinary dust from around the world is unintentional art in the style of Marcel Duchamp. Scottish dust, Korean dust, Haitian dust and Cuban dust; dust from Mt. Etna, Iranian dust, and Tokyo dust

A meditation, upon hearing that the singer Nick Cave's 15-year-old son, Arthur, died from a fall from a cliff in Brighton, England.

Local author and polio survivor, Karen Chase, shared her experiences with a new generation. addressing an Advanced Placement Language and Composition Class at Monument Mountain Regional High School.

A writer, poet, astrologer, and Jungian Scholar, she lectured around the world, published nine books, and taught courses at the Jung Institutes of Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. She is recognized as a pioneer in linking psychology and astrology.

A poem of the beginning of things, and what beginnings bring forth.