poetry

A person stands in the middle of a body of waterm holding a bird. Waves, animals and the sun turn toward them.
Fractal / Flood

a found poem from the Letters of William Blake (1980)

'The Ethics of Being a Poet': An Interview with Jenna Lyn Albert

The author of Bec & Call on the role of poet laureates, the political power of writing, and capturing a sense of place in her work. 

The Year in Making Clothes

Threading a needle is a momentary sideline from a feeling that might otherwise darken me completely. That can be enough, and as a new decade approaches, I find peace in enough.

The McSorley Poet

My father's stories come from a career behind the bar of New York's oldest pub, among the alcoholics and loners and deviants who became his people and helped him find his voice as a writer.