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For Summer: Florida Poets: Brian Turner [by Emma Trelles]
Aedes Aegypti by Brian Turner With the audio on mute, the televisionflickers over the bodies of loverstangled in dream, carbon dioxidepluming from their mouthsthe way factory smoke billowsfrom the industrial park outside of town.…
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Language Has Consequences: Carolyn Forche and the Poetry of Witness [by Elizabeth Powell]
“In the dark times. Will there be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.” These words by Berthold Brecht have been on my mind a lot lately even from my privileged…
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In My Unknowing: Vermont’s Poet Laureate Chard deNiord [by Elizabeth Powell]
Walking the lush, wooded trails near my home in northern Vermont, I have come to appreciate the beautiful, sometimes elegiac, liminal spaces between heaven and earth. I have grown to love that fuzzy line…
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Why the English love to live in ancient Greece? [by Virginia Woolf]
<<< It is the climate [in England] that is impossible. If we try to think of Sophocles here, we must annihilate the smoke and the damp and the thick wet mists. We must sharpen…
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Sweltering in Paris: Going to ground with Michel Onfray, Greta Thunberg & the death of Descartes [by Tracy Danison]
Catherine Diverrès, “Jour et nuit”NicholasJoubert Paris is surely a bit above the best when it comes to fostering and presenting creative, innovative, art-quality, live dance and performance, including circus. But, what with Paris lately…
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Elizabeth A. I. Powell, Guest Author August 5-9
This week we welcome Elizabeth A.I. Powell as our guest author. Elizabeth's forthcoming poetry book "Atomizer" is due out in Fall of 2020 from Louisiana State University Press. She is also the author of…
