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Poetry Breakfast

Serving a little poetic nourishment Monday thru Friday and featuring a Short Play Saturday Matinee to read.

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The Grief of Atalanta By Diane Elayne Dees

The Grief of Atalanta (For Kris N.) By Diane Elayne Dees Daughter of hunters, Atalanta knows survival. Daughter of bears, Atalanta knows hibernation. Daughter of man and woman, Atalanta knows expectations. Sister of many, Atlanta knows abandonment. Born to run,... Continue Reading →

Ezra Pound, Modern Poetry Yale Video Lectures

I did say a while back that I'd been throwing in a few poetry lectures and courses...now that school's started up again...here we go... The lecture introduces the poetry of Ezra Pound. Tensions in Pound's personality and career are considered,... Continue Reading →

Constant Reflection by Isabalino Anastasio Guzman

Constant Reflection After reading Daniel Simko’s “Departures” by Isabalino Anastasio Guzman I enter you as an angel enters a scythe. I find nothing. The room has been replaced with a desert of glass, some mirror fragments, and a slash of... Continue Reading →

Taha Muhammad Ali (with Peter Cole) reading at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival

Reading in Arabic and English, "Revenge"

THE BOY WITH A FEATHER by Byron Beynon

THE BOY WITH A FEATHER by Byron Beynon The boy has found a feather to play with, a new toy for imagination's threshold, he is introduced to science, gravity captured before the fall sticks to memory, bold and clear in... Continue Reading →

Passing on Grace by George Bishop

Passing on Grace by George Bishop The word and the act at dinner became unclear— the goodwill of allowing everyone equal portions seemed more meaty, the secret recipe of something- battered fish closer to the prayer we all prayed differently.... Continue Reading →

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