poetry

John Atkinson Grimshaw - "Thro' the Wood" (date unknown) Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost I have been one acquainted with the night...

The Abandoned Valley by Jack Gilbert Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket int...

Photographs by Anne Brigman Natural Woman: Rediscovering Anne Brigman's Pagan Vision (via Poetry Magazine ): While on one of these trips, Br...

The most important work I will ever do is to bear witness to my life, to affirm that my life matters even if it does not look like anyone el...

A year ago, this was my mother's last full day of life. Looking back, I now know this was the eve of her death. I started reading a biograph...

Tonight, I started reading Nadia Anjuman's Smoke Drifts . Anjuman was a gifted Afghan poet who wrote under terrible persecution and confinem...

My mother was my life, and she saved my life. Without her, I would not have survived my father's death in my teens. How do I survive her dea...

I love the symmetry of these two cards from The Wild Unknown tarot deck. On the left is 6 of Swords, on the right is 6 of Wands. I pulled th...

Started reading Edith Södergran's Modern Woman , published by World Poetry Books The following poems are not from the collection, but they g...