Category: Poetry from Poets Near Me
Your poems. Your poets. Your city. Poetry from Poets Near Me tethers each poet read to the city of their namesake, hoping to cultivate a local love of the way we shape and keep language.
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Root River
Root River comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death, before and after…
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Glacier Graves
Glacier Graves comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death, before and after…
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Gilded by Greenwood
Gilded by Greenwood comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death, before and…
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Greenwood’s Portcullis
Greenwood’s Portcullis comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out today as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death, before and after COVID…
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The Power of Rhyme
The following excerpt on THE POWER OF RHYME comes from our longtime contributor, Jeffrey Burghauser‘s new book entitled THE HEAVY LIFTING: A BOY’S GUIDE TO WRITING POETRY. It was provided graciously by his publisher: It doesn’t require any particular skill to throw balls into the air. To catch them, however, is a different story. Not…
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PROSODY
The following excerpt on PROSODY comes from our longtime contributor, Jeffrey Burghauser‘s new book entitled THE HEAVY LIFTING: A BOY’S GUIDE TO WRITING POETRY. It was provided graciously by his publisher: “PROSODY. Noun. \ ʹprä-sә-dē \ [a] The study of versification, especially the study of metrical structure. [b] A particular system, theory, or style of…
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Traditional Haiku : A Western Perspective
Many writers today present Haiku as free verse, covering a myriad of subjects. Many readers, myself included, enjoy these verses. However, I feel there is greater gentleness and artistic challenge in traditional Haiku. Traditional Haiku, which originated in Japan, is recognized as unrhymed verse of seventeen syllables. Steeped in Japanese culture and traditional nuances, Haiku…
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February Evening
A girl is fixing her bike knelt over in the lawn she no more than 10 and the sun is setting and the air is chilled and I’m anxious with her
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Margin Path Greenwood
As the Green-wood Poet, I’ve been to Greenwood easily twice as many times as I’ve been to the Met Museum and was still surprised by the margin path in Greenwood (I don’t really believe in dashes, even in proper names, only em dashes and only for parentheticals). The Met I’ve visited some fifty times and:…
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SIDE VIEW OF THE TEMPORAL REGION
We martians had it all figured, a series of canals traversing the whole planet. A way to move…
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building blocks
You are building blocks, my son. High and even hard to see where it reaches puff of clouds. You are looking far -far beyond that silver sparkle when the jumping fish applauds. I have you one more year. Carried in my heart with crown, scepter, cape and much more gear. I celebrate you with no…
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Cow Milk Silo
Dementia across-lawn strideswither the spurgesunspot. The maid’s Tennessee handsbridge the thistle, her spine of damp & rest,dreaming of an electric scale. Pastures & pasturesof cow milksilo painted, blurring it all impartial.