Friday, October 21, 2016

996. The Real World - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated by S. Barańczak and C. Cavanagh The real world doesn’t take flight the way dreams do. No muffled voice, no doorbell can...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

995. Villanelle For Our Time - Frank Scott

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. From bitter searching of the heart, Quickened with passion and with pain We rise to play a greater part. This is the faith from w...
Monday, August 15, 2016

994. For The Living - Stephen Meadows

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. Standing high on this hillside the wind off the Pacific forming the language of grasses and escarpment eternally speaking the s...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

993. Andree Rexroth by Kenneth Rexroth

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Mt. Tamalpais The years have gone. It is spring Again. Mars and Saturn will Soon come on, low in the West, In the dusk. Now the...
Wednesday, June 01, 2016

992. Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain - Li Po

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. The birds have vanished down the sky, Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mou...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

991. Eagle Poem - Joy Harjo

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Joy Harjo - Eagle Poem To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon To one whole voice that is you. And kno...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

990. An Idea - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak An idea came to me for a rhyme? a poem? Well, fine — I say ...
Monday, December 21, 2015

989. Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit - Wallace Stevens

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. If there must be a god in the house, must be, Saying things in the rooms and on the stair, Let him move as the sunlight moves on the ...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

988. The Lay Of The Trilobite - May Kendall

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Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poem of the week: The Lay of the Trilobite by May Kendall A Victorian satire on evolutionary t...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

987. The Hinds - Kathleen Jamie

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Carol Rumens's poem of the week in The Guardian Each week Carol Rumens picks a poem to discuss. Written amid the ‘tremendous energy...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

986. Halfway Down - Chard Diniord

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. Halfway down: the sight of a doe through the trees in the meadow. I stopped to stare at her staring at me. The silence arced betw...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

985. Our Story - William Stafford

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. Remind me again—together we trace our strange journey, find each other, come on laughing. Some time we’ll cross where life ends...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

984. Some Say - Maureen N. McLane

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Some say a host of horsemen, a horizon of ships under sail is most beautiful & some say a mountain embraced by the clouds ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

983. A Tale Begins - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak Our ships are not yet back from Winnland. We still have to get o...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

982. It Was A Time - Stephen Dunn

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. Some of us just wanted to drop out, go far away from integrity’s demands. Others sought strange consultations with their almost van...
Saturday, May 09, 2015

981. Two Paintings by Gustav Klimt - Jorie Graham

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. Although what glitters          on the trees, row after perfect row,         is merely the injustice         of the world, ...
Sunday, May 03, 2015

980. The Little Ways That Encouarge Good Fortune

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. Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. If you do not have things right in your life you will be overwhelmed:...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

979. A Tale Begun - Wislawa Szymborska

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. Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanag h The world is never ready for the birth of a child. Our ...