Tag: Kay Ryan
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* new post for the CR blog!
Just a quick post to share my latest installment of “What’s Poetry Got to Do with It?” over at the Cincinnati Review blog. In this post I do a short survey of three Virgo poets: Charles Wright, Kay Ryan, and William Carlos Williams. Could be that working on this CR post last week is what…
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* short lyrics: (pre)spring mix
As I am on the road – in Corpus Christi, Texas promoting Everything We Think We Hear to be exact – I thought I would do a short, fun post of some seasonal short lyrics. Could be that the winters in Cincinnati are tough that I’ve got spring on my mind already. I’d like to say…
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* salvaging with kay ryan
Salvage – Kay Ryan The wreck is a fact. The worst has happened. The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work. Thanks be to god—again— for extractable elements which are not carriers of pain, for this periodic table at which the self-taught salvagers disassemble the…
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* hoping with kay ryan
Crown – Kay Ryan Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no right to— places only birds should fly to. As August comes to an end, I begin to reflect on the end of summer – or, rather, the ending of summer.…
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* Kay Ryan chills on the friday influence
Say Uncle – Kay Ryan Every day you say, Just one more try. Then another irrecoverable day slips by. You will say ankle, you will say knuckle; why won’t you why won’t you say uncle? *** This week on the Influence: Kay Ryan. When I go back to this poem, I’m always taken in by the speed of…
The Friday Influence 