Poem | The Mocking Bird
How is my desire lost? It pours out of my body.
21
Mar
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Feb
Poem | First Covid-19 Summer
Some of us are lucky. We can swim in a lake. We can walk on a dirt road.
30
Nov
Poem | I Hold my Breath
1.
I keep calling up Weather to ask
if it’s going to rain, though I’m standing
at the window and can see
the staccato drops already...
13
Oct
Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Jewish-American Poet Louise Glück
This week’s announcement that Jewish-American writer Louise Glück has received the Nobel Prize in Literature is cause for celebration during a decidedly difficult season. Glück, who is widely regarded as one of the most gifted lyrical poets of our time, is the first American woman poet ever to have received this honor.
21
Sep
Poem | At One
The English word atonement sounds abstract / And kind of Latin, but really it’s just “at one.”
29
Jun
Poem | Double Rainbow
Yesterday someone robbed me, and today, / an afternoon of rain brings a double rainbow.
17
Mar
Poem | Afikomen
I’ve written the soup, the parting of the sea, the savage plagues and the candles
20
Jan
Poem | [From “The Naomi Letters”] January 23, 2017
There is another version of the story in which we survive nothing by accident.
16
Jan
Beshert | Bonded by the Bard
“Was that your friend Bill Shakespeare?” my youngest son, Alex, then six, asks after my husband, Steve, hangs up the phone.
If that seems like a crazy question from a child, it was par for the course in my household, because it was words that wooed me, words that won me, and words that keep us – the entire family – in thrall.
From the very beginning, in fact.
11
Nov
Poem | A Little Girl’s 1930s Dirge
“Turn off your lights! / Turn them off! / Heh heh heh,” the radio coughs. / The Olga Coal Company presents