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Mick Imlah, 1956-2009
On January 12, 2009, the English poet and editor Mick Imlah died at age 52. He was the author of two books, Birthmarks (1988) and The Lost Leader (2008). After graduating from Oxford with…
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Liberties of the Imagination: Poems by Joseph Harrison, commentary by Mary Jo Salter [part 4 of 5]
Today’s poem by Joseph Harrison employs one of the oldest poetic forms, the ballad, to take on the tragic subject of an early death by a beloved contemporary. OH When Love herself came to…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: January 17, 2024
Today’s offering is by Cassandra Atherton, an Australian prose poet and scholar. Her poem below is from the first issue of The Mackinaw which “celebrate(s) prose poetry, in the present as well as its…
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Liberties of the Imagination: Poems by Joseph Harrison, commentary by Mary Jo Salter [part 3 of 5]
Today I want to comment on the ingenuity of just one poem in Joseph Harrison’s crown of sonnets, “As If.” This one is the third in a series of… twenty-two sonnets! All of them…
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Liberties of the Imagination: Poems by Joseph Harrison, commentary by Mary Jo Salter [part 2 of 5]
Today’s poem by Joseph Harrison, the second of five favorites I’ve chosen, has a title that invites us to consider one of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes. HAMLET It’s quiet here. A stoic rectitude Props up…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixty-Seven): Dylan Loring [by Angela Ball]
Pardon My French I couldn’t decide betweenFrench bread and French fries,sipping French roastI made in my French press,preparing to cook either breakfast or lunchfor the woman who began the previous eveningin a brown French…
