Poets:The Far Flung Word
I can’t say how really amazing it is to be at the GRD Poetry Festival in Newark, to see poets …
Category Archives: Poetry
The Republic of Poetry
by Martin Espada For Chile In the republic of poetry, a train full of poets rolls south in the rain …
Tongue of War: Some Poems
Beach Landing, Iwo Jima They didn’t shoot at us. A silent scene until we clogged the beach, and then–all hell, …
St. Patrick’s Day Remembrance
We had to leave the Hunger said my Da. We walked the half of Ireland trying not to see what …
The Way
Lao Tzu’s (Old Master) Tao Te Ching [Way and Virtue The Ancient Text] is one of the oldest meditations we …
Big Sur in the Autumn on a Birthday
The cliffs of the Santa Lucia Range in years, a mere 5 million old, made up of parts 100 million …
Rumi: A Poet Like No Other
What a fortune it is to have friends to send you arrows that lodge in your heart! I got a …
Who Was That Woman?
Who was that woman made love to me in the night in the empty room in the house without sound …
Am What I Am
Am what I am at 4 a.m– The same as I was at 1? After the carnivores of dreams have …
Lying Awake In the Dark
Lying awake in the dark Anticipating lying awake in the dark to come. Trying to let the body sink to …
Pelicans: A Poem
Having just come back from a small trip to Big Sur I’ve been finger leaping through Robinson Jeffers’ Selected Poetry. …
Gypsy Cante: Deep Song of the Caves
Work I have done in my time: Gypsy Cante: Deep Song of the Caves