Reading Keats in a Japanese Garden
A poem by Pamela Johnson Parker.
A poem by Pamela Johnson Parker.
A poem by Maureen McQuerry
A review of Death’s & Transfigurations by Paul Mariani.
A poem by Liz Dolan explores children’s responses to death.
Cate Whetzel reviews Katie Ford’s “Colosseum,” a book of poems that “record [the] anxiety, trauma, and stunned sense of coping” of “the loss of New Orleans” and “the destruction and devastation of the classical world.”
A former mountain climber defies death, this time, from her wheelchair.
This poem addresses the role of language and creativity in education; it considers a “concrete classroom” future where poets are no more.
I’ve drawn blood from others, in my childhood, even friends and kin— slit the heavy garment of skin or split sinus caves with the hard hammer of my fist. Very young, I cried if my sister hurt herself. Later, her hot blood slicked my hammering hand— that hurt was, more than hers, my own. And […]