Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...
Poems written by older adults living with memory loss will be on display at the Ross Library in downtown Lock Haven throughout November. The exhibit celebrates a poetry-writing program led by Centre ...
The group poetry sessions at the Fond du Lac Reservation in Minnesota tap into a reverence for elders and storytelling.
The personal voice of Jack Myers (1941-2009) evokes tremendous life force in the conundrums of dying he contemplated in this final book. “After I am gone and the ache begins/to cease,” opens the title ...
Somewhere in the mushy folds of that thing you call a brain, there no doubt lurks some ancient rhyme just waiting for the chance to roll off your poetic lips, astonishing friends, delighting strangers ...
We are like flowers and don’t last forever. Quietly like thunder, beautifully like a river, Like a cloud, you passed through our world. You were right; Rivers will always outlive us. Grief always ...
A light touch and a wry tone are what readers typically remember from the poetry of Alexander Pope (1688–1744), but he was absurdly talented, a man from whom words poured out in meter and rhyme as ...
“It is hard to hang a clothesline between stars,” Levin (May Day) writes, but she shows in her fifth collection that if anyone can do so it’s her. This gathering of lyric pieces, short series, and ...
The personal voice of Jack Myers (1941-2009) evokes tremendous life force in the conundrums of dying he contemplated in this final book. “After I am gone and the ache begins/to cease,” opens the title ...