Tag: John Keats
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suddenness via leah poole osowski
This week I’m sharing a poem from Leah Poole Osowski’s collection Hover Over Her which I recently discussed in a microreview & interview for the CR blog. In my review, I discussed the collection in terms of “the poetics of suddenness.” This week’s poem, “Glow Sticks,” embodies what I mean by this phrase in its use of direct commands…
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* throwing things on the floor with Jim Harrison & John Keats
In reading Jim Harrison’s novel The English Major last month, I came across the following and it brought tears – I have been much for tears these days – and mainly because I have been slowly going over poems I have memorized, seeing what stuck and what fell off, and was suddenly surprised to recognize the…
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* the 100th post
Bright star – would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores… (John Keats, Bright Star) With those six lines there, poetry had…
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* cinquain tributes
Byron Believed You could make a River from a writhing, Overturned woman, her husband Nearby. *** Every once in a while I write something I call a cinquain tribute, a cinquain in which the last name of a poet is snuck in via acrostic – the first letter of each line. I enjoy these because…
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* translation 3/3 on the friday influence
(from Proverbios y Cantares – Antonio Machado) * XXXII. Oh faith of meditation! Oh faith after deep thought! When a heart returns to earth, the human cup overflows, and the sea swells. *** This week, The Friday Influence presents the work of the great Spanish poet Antonio Machado. I first ran across the above poem…
The Friday Influence 